“Farmer Looking for a Wife” couple
Uwe and Iris Abel feel “ripped off”
Iris and Uwe Abel at an event last year.
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The two “Bauer sucht Frau” stars Uwe and Iris Abel can understand the protesting farmers in Germany.
Farmers are blocking highways and roads nationwide. They are protesting against the federal government’s agricultural policy. According to representative surveys, the protests are overwhelmingly received favorably by the population. That too ““Bauer sucht Frau” couple Uwe (54) and Iris Abel (55) are supporting the protesters.
The Abels: “They’re kidding us in Berlin”
“It’s long overdue for a major action to happen, they’re screwing us over in Berlin,” the couple explains to the broadcaster RTL, which is also home to the cult dome show. “People are dissatisfied, have existential fears and therefore extreme anger,” explains the former pig farmer, who now only runs a café on his farm. He himself is “fully behind the protests as long as everything is non-violent and no lives are endangered.” Abel is of the opinion that agriculture is being “undermined”: “We have to remain self-sufficient as a country when it comes to supplies. And that costs money.”
Uwe Abel’s wife Iris calls for Chancellor Scholz to resign
Uwe Abel and his wife Iris met on the RTL show in 2011 and married around two years later. She chooses harsher words on the matter. In the government, “there are people who have no idea about the matter but want to make decisions. […] If Scholz and his government had backbone and acted responsibly for Germany, then they would resign immediately.”
The fact that a crowd of angry farmers recently prevented Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (54) from leaving a ferry “went too far for us personally,” they explain. “Obviously it’s not possible to block access routes to hospitals,” says Uwe Abel. “But as far as I have seen, everything is being done to ensure free access.” Meanwhile, his wife Iris is also willing to sit in traffic due to the protests.