"Grateful speech!" — Columnist Jörges disassembles Old President Gregor Gysi

Gregor Gysi opened the new session of the Bundestag as the old president. His speech was full of scurrility, old-left romanticism and a historical self-infatuation. But above all it revealed an astonishingly deep-seated skepticism towards parliamentary democracy.

"If you forget this speech as soon as possible and do not put it on the Internet, columnist Hans-Ulrich Jörges gets angry about the structurally unstructured speech by old president Gregor Gysi at the first session of the new German Bundestag. The left-wing politician did not address the real problems.

The old president Gregor Gysi opens the first session of the 21st German Bundestag. His speech in the text It is the spoken wordDear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, when I ran for the Bundestag for the first time in 1990, young members of my party wore a poster that said that I would still be the old president. I thought that was a nice joke, but I never believed in it. You should be right, not me. Now I am not the oldest Member of Parliament,…