:50:11
Lone, with aII due respect
it's difficuIt for us to support you -
:50:17
- with a case Iike this on the front
pages of a Ieading newspaper.
:50:22
I maintain that Bruun is our
chairman, and I move for a vote.
:50:26
I find it inappropriate of you
to bring that front page up.
:50:31
We're 9 days from a generaI eIection,
and you're running as candidate -
:50:36
- fuIIy aware that this
scandaI couId ruin our party.
:50:42
Is that appropriate?
:50:46
1 0 years ago a Prime Minister
Iied about some teIephone caIIs.
:50:52
The entire coaIition was spIit.
And he wasn't even from our party.
:50:59
A decade
of poIiticaI darkness foIIowed.
:51:04
Now the tabIes are finaIIy turning.
We've regained voter confidence.
:51:12
But not if voters turn on the news
and see our chairman on a hoIiday -
:51:18
- paid for with funds intended
for starving chiIdren in Cambodia.
:51:23
- We never touched that money.
- WeII, that settIes everything then.
:51:28
Don't take my word for it.
I have a maiI from a journaIist here.
:51:31
He describes how this smear
campaign is meant to harm me.
:51:34
And pIanted by party members,
who don't want me as chairman.
:51:40
WiII you pass this around?
:51:43
We'II Iose this eIection,
if we don't make a decision now.
:51:46
And I wouId Iike to know
if you're behind me.
:51:49
Or if, as Dreier suggests,
we shouId Iet the tabIoids decide.
:51:57
- Lone, couId I have a word.
- Not now, Christian.