Lammert speaks at the CDU's Political Ash Wednesday

Former Bundestag President Norbert Lammert will give the speech at the 30th Political Ash Wednesday of the Saxon CDU in Upper Lusatia. In its invitation to the event on February 14 in the Stadthalle Bautzen, the Union quoted the 75-year-old Christian Democrat on Thursday with a statement that sounds like an appeal, especially in the current situation in Germany. "The stability of a democratic system is not guaranteed - and certainly not solely - by a successful constitutional text, but by the determination of its citizens to consider the validity of this constitutional order and its rules to be even more important than the assertion of their own interests."

The CDU/CSU in Bavaria has repeatedly invited prominent speakers to Political Ash Wednesday in recent years. Lammert was a guest once before during his time as President of the Bundestag - in 2009. Charlotte Knobloch, the former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, and former Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn have also spoken at the traditional event in Bautzen.