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Theo Koll (l.) In the ZDF summer interview with Green leader Omid Nouripour. © Screenshot ZDF
Omid Nouripour answers Theo Koll’s questions in the ZDF summer interview: Apart from empty phrases, the Frankfurter doesn’t offer much.
“Welcome to my city. The most beautiful in the world!” With this, Omid Nouripour, co-chairman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, welcomes his counterpart to the summer interview on Sunday evening on ZDF. An unbearably metropolitan-hip clip allows even local viewers to realize only at the end, when the camera pans to the Iron Bridge, that the summer interview with the Greens chairman is taking place in his constituency in Frankfurt am Main, for which ZDF correspondent Theo Koll came all the way from the capital.
The clip fits Nouripour: As a member of parliament for Frankfurt am Main in the Bundestag, the Green politician likes to be close to the people – Frankfurt, brudi. The role of the shirt-sleeved politician from the crime capital has always seemed just as little authentic to him as the suit, which is apparently supposed to give him political and urbane seriousness, suits him.
Criticism of the Greens: What is Nouripour’s party actually delivering?
But enough of the superficial. Omid Nouripour would not have become chairman of the party that provides the vice chancellor in this country if he did not also have to represent substantive positions. Like, for example, that of his party on the building energy law, also heating law, through which the Greens and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck are massively criticized. “It’s a marathon and there will be scores at the end.” Okay. Nobody knows more empty phrases than Omid Nouripour!
“Above all, we deliver and focus on the well-being of the country.” But what exactly does Nouripour’s party deliver? The party chairman has nothing concrete to add to the comment by moderator Theo Koll that the political work of the Greens does not reach the people. “We are working on the prosperity of the country.” The fact that Nouripour praises projects of the federal government (which, as is well known, consists of three parties) is also noticed by ZDF man Koll and asks regarding the topics of the Greens. “We are driving climate neutrality.”
Minimal political consensus that Omid Nouripour wants to sell as his party’s core brand. “We have to do one thing, but we also have to do the other.” This may be the reason why many former Greens voters can no longer do anything with the politics of this party. In any case, Nouripour doesn’t seem to have thought regarding the fact that political “deliver at any price” always goes hand in hand with sacrificing one’s political profile.
Nouripour reveals the problem of the Greens in the ZDF summer interview
“We have to call off the culture wars and concentrate on the essentials!” And for the Frankfurt member of the Bundestag that means: “That we strengthen and secure our prosperity.” And with that Nouripour reveals the problem of the Greens on ZDF: Always think in coalitions and that If in doubt, put your own political profile aside for government action. In Hesse, the investigation into the attack in Hanau remains unsatisfactory. In Hamburg, people are blocking the investigation of the NSU complex. And in the federal government, a Green Minister announced that she no longer wanted to use parental allowance to finance a gender equality measure. Three very specific things, by the way!
ZDF summer interview with Omid Nouripour (July 16, 2023)
Link to the program in the ZDF media library
So if you like the vague, you will be satisfied with Omid Nouripour in the ZDF summer interview. At this point, 20 minutes of broadcasting time is probably a curse for the interviewee and a blessing for the audience at the same time. But the only thing that can be taken from Nouripour as a concrete and credible statement at the end of the discussion is the remark made at the beginning regarding Frankfurt am Main. That suits Nouripour. After all, he built a whole political career on it. Frankfurt, brother. (Moritz Post)
Transparency note: In addition to his work as an author, Moritz Post is also a parliamentary group officer for the “Party” in Frankfurt’s Römer and is therefore directly involved in many of the party’s activities.
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