German party places products in election ads

On September 14, shortly before 6 p.m., the
The first PARTEI election commercial was shown for 90 seconds on ZDF. This
is the first of a total of four dates on which the PARTEI will present its
is allowed to show election advertising on television. It stands as a "party for
Labor, the rule of law, animal welfare, elite support and grassroots democracy
Initiative" for, among other things, the redistribution
Germany, including the construction of a new wall. Currently, the
PARTEI with the auctioning of airtime intended for election advertising on Ebay on
itself
attentive. Martin Sonneborn, Chairman of the PARTEI and at the same time
Editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Titanic, explains to the
Netzeitung is very open about why he uses product placement (e.g. for "Waffen,
tobacco products, spirits") in the
election commercials: The money raised should be used for
a sleazy, populist and low-level election campaign against "the
Merkel". The fact that his product placement plans have been stopped
Sonneborn doesn't believe that this will happen: ZDF "will only realize that,
when the commercial has already run, according to everything you know about the
Public broadcasters know".