Green party housekeeper Paula Piechotta has drawn criticism for a harsh insult to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and has finally apologized. In a podcast, the Leipzig member of the Bundestag complained that Scholz was isolated in terms of European policy and then said in this context: "I would say that the SPD has known Olaf Scholz for a very long time. Everyone in the SPD knows that Olaf Scholz is an asshole."
The statement was heard in an episode of the "Ostgrün" podcast published on December 23, which Piechotta records with her party colleague and Leipzig local politician Martin Meißner. Several media had previously reported.
Piechotta said: "Macron is inviting Selenskyj and Trump to Notre Dame - and Scholz isn't even there. That is quite dramatic." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selensky and US President-elect Donald Trump attended the ceremony to reopen the cathedral in Paris at the beginning of December. This was preceded by a three-way meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. Piechotta called the SPD chancellor a below-average head of government who had done a disproportionate amount to ruin Europe.
