Overview
- An SWR campaign portrait filmed after a visit to a Tafel outlet in Bühl shows SPD lead candidate Andreas Stoch telling his driver to send a photo of a butcher’s display in France.
- In the segment, Stoch remarks that a duck pâté from over the border is excellent and explains he sometimes shops there when in Baden.
- Stoch has apologized, calling the sequence a misstep and acknowledging that it appears irritating in the context of a food bank visit.
- He says the referenced purchase did not happen and that the intended item was leberwurst costing €1.80 per 100 grams rather than a luxury product.
- Online reaction remains sharply critical, and the episode is being treated as a campaign liability with the SPD polling near 10 percent ahead of the March 8 Baden‑Württemberg vote.