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A true visionary! CDU district administrator Götz Ulrich saves Saxony-Anhalt with football and 80-cent jobs!On June 26, 2026, the Burgenlandkreis published a Facebook post bursting with self-praise and team spirit: “⚽️ Kick-off for #alle11!” Eleven districts and the District Association are launching a social media campaign. 
The district administrators are “showing a united face” and will “present the issues that are particularly important for their regions.” And what is the most pressing issue for the regions? Of course not crumbling infrastructure, not the shortage of skilled workers due to migration, not the catastrophic financial situation of the municipalities, not exploding debt or the consequences of misguided federal policy. No: “In order for integration to truly succeed, asylum seekers must be introduced to the labor market at an early stage. This is what we understand by promoting and demanding.” That is what CDU district administrator Götz Ulrich himself says in the clip. “Working together is like in football. Team spirit brings success. And that is why we district administrators are committed to mandatory work opportunities for asylum seekers.” Brilliant! What a bold move forward. What a fresh idea. One could almost think that the CDU and district administrator Götz Ulrich have just reinvented the wheel – or at least copied AfD election programs from years ago. Because let’s take a closer look: the mandatory work opportunities under Section 5 of the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act (AsylbLG) have existed for years. Able-bodied asylum seekers are generally obliged to accept available work opportunities. This is a legal obligation; refusal can lead to benefit cuts. In Burgenlandkreis itself, the instrument has long been in use – with mixed “success.” In an earlier evaluation, there were more sanctioned individuals than active participants. Nevertheless, the district leads the statistics in Saxony-Anhalt with a proud 478 obligations. So it does not need to advocate for it – it can simply implement it. So why does the much-admired Mr. Ulrich proclaim that he is “committed” to it, as if it were a groundbreaking innovation? Because it sounds good. Because tough rhetoric helps score points with concerned citizens, while at the same time continuing to support the federal and state policies that helped create these very problems in the first place. Classic CDU: first drive the pig through the village that you helped raise, then appear as its rescuer. Proximity to the AfD? Just a small stepThe demand for consistent work obligations and “promote and demand” is tailor-made for the AfD. While the AfD has long been calling for this across the board and without hesitation, CDU district administrator Götz Ulrich is eagerly copying these slogans – only with a few more football metaphors and a milder tone. Mr. Ulrich is not standing on the far right; he is standing where the CDU stood 15 years ago, before it dissolved into the great coalition embrace.And now the truly biting questionThe post grandly states that the districts will “present the issues that are particularly important for their regions”: functional rural areas, reliable financial resources, good education, healthcare, modern administration, digitalization, mobility, etc.And which issue is pushed to the front in the opening clip? The work obligation for comparatively few asylum seekers doing 80-cent jobs like mowing lawns or raking leaves. That is not prioritization. That is distraction at the highest level. Especially since there are around 6,600 unemployed people in Burgenlandkreis. While entire regions are being depopulated, infrastructure is decaying, schools and hospitals are at their limit, energy prices remain high, and the federal government is draining municipalities with its warmongering and debt orgy, people celebrate what is perhaps humanity’s greatest achievement since the invention of the lawnmower: forcing asylum seekers to collect leaves. Well done, Mr. CDU district administrator Götz Ulrich! A true masterpiece of symbolic politics. Citizens see: “Finally someone is doing something!” While the real problems – financial distress, demographics, economic decline, bureaucratic madness – continue unchecked. The #alle11 campaign is not a call for strong municipalities. It is a filmed attempt to distract from one’s own powerlessness and shared responsibility. The Left: “Forced labor is inhumane”The Left categorically rejects any form of mandatory work opportunities (the famous 80-cent jobs). Bundestag member Heidi Reichinnek called such a regulation in Peine a “scandal”: “Introducing a work obligation for refugees means nothing other than exclusion and disenfranchisement. Forced labor is incompatible with a humane asylum policy.” Instead, the party calls for a right to work from day one, without bans and without coercion. The Asylum Seekers Benefits Act should be abolished, and refugees should be allowed to work normally immediately.The Greens: “Feeds a right-wing narrative”The Greens sharply criticize such initiatives. The integration minister in Thuringia (Green Party) accused a CDU district administrator of doing exactly what right-wing groups are currently trying to do: “He reinforces the false narrative of work-shy refugees.” Green MPs warned that access to regular employment is being made more difficult, while people are instead parked in pointless auxiliary jobs – harming everyone involved. Instead of obligations, they advocate abolishing all work bans and enabling quick, unbureaucratic access to the regular labor market. Bureaucracy through 80-cent jobs is counterproductive.SPD: Divided, but tending toward criticismFormer Federal Minister of Labour Hubertus Heil (SPD) considered work obligations “in individual cases” to be useful, but did not see them as a sustainable solution. Many SPD local politicians and left-leaning party members reject broader compulsory models or boycott them (as in Peine, where SPD and Green representatives skipped the vote). The SPD instead focuses more on “promoting” and faster labor market integration through fewer restrictions.
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