In shades of Germany's dark past, Merkel's successor sparks freedom of speech uproar.
"Zer vill be only vat vee vant shaid"
Goebbels would be proud.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's favoured successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer sparked outrage on social media on Tuesday with an apparent call for limits to free speech around elections, AFP reported.
The CDU chief's comment came after her party and its centre-left coalition partner SPD suffered their worst scores in Sunday's European election -- a result partly blamed on the fact that some 70 YouTube stars had urged Germans not to vote for either party.
Addressing the issue on Monday night, Kramp-Karrenbauer said if 70 newspaper editors had called to boycott parties ahead of an election, that would be classed "clearly as propaganda".
"The question is... what are rules from the analogue realm and which rules should apply to the digital realm?
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