His entanglements with various lobby groups aside, Merz is just a terrible politician.
Merz is not a diplomat or negotiator he just wants to be the boss and give orders.
That is not how you get things done in a coalition government or in parliament.

It is somewhat misleading but not false. He did vote against it as the linked article also points out.

English tl:dr for those interested: He did vote for an earlier proposal that would have made marital rape illegal but allowed potential victims to block an investigation.
Critics feared that abusive spouses could force their victims to block investigations.
That proposal ultimately failed, a new version without “veto” was proposed, Merz voted against but it ultimately passed.

I was talking about this comment

Is Bavarian an official language of Bavaria? Are children taught in Bavarian most of their classes, are laws published in Bavarian, are movies released in Bavarian?

So the comment that listed multiple arguments besides the number of speakers? In reply to my comment about the only the number of speakers not being enough? To which i reiterated my point about only the number of speakers not being enough, causing you to list even more other arguments?

The main difference is probably that Catalan is an official language of Catalunya. All the other aspects are a consequence of that legal status.

I start to feel like you’re trolling me but let me try one last time:
I am making the argument that THE NUMBER OF SPEAKERS ALONE IS NOT ARGUMENT ENOUGH.
Catalan having a different legal status is a DIFFERENT argument from the number of speakers.

Those aspects were already listed in the above comment

In this comment I originally replied to, where?

why you don’t want to answer my questions about the use of Bavarian

Because I thought they were rhetorical questions, as mentioning Bavaraian in the first place was rhetorical.
I never argued that it should become a recognized EU language, I used it as an example of why a large number of speakers alone is not a good argument.

But since you’re interested:

• Is Bavarian an official language of Bavaria? - No the official language in Germany is German.
• Are children taught in Bavarian - Official school language is also German but if the teacher and class speak Bavarian they also teach in Bavarian.
• are laws published in Bavarian - No, Laws are published in the official language of Germany, German
• are movies released in Bavarian? - Yes, movies set in Bavaria often use some form of Bavarian though usually in a way that would still be mostly intelligible to standard German speakers.
• Is there a movement in Bavaria to get the language recognized as an EU language? - Afaik not as an EU language but there are various language associations that do fight for more recognition and promotion of Bavarian.

see also: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Austro-Bavarian#Use

I’m not saying that the number of speakers isn’t a good reason

No I’m saying the number of speakers ALONE isn’t a good reason and you listing a myriad of reasons beyond just the number of speakers that you think Bavarian doesn’t fulfill just further proves my point.

So, you’re saying the number of speakers alone is not a good reason?

Also Catalan is spoken as a first language by about 4 million people.

That alone does not make a good reason. There are 12 million speakers of Bavarian. Should that also become an official EU language?

Ned dass i do wos dagegn häd.