Status: 06.02.2023 10:28 a.m
Maassen let the ultimatum for a voluntary exit from the CDU pass. Therefore, the party leadership wants to discuss an expulsion procedure next week. This is “inevitable,” said parliamentary group leader Jung.
The CDU federal executive board is expected to discuss a party expulsion procedure against Hans-Georg Maassen next week. The member of the presidium Andreas Jung said in the “rbb24 Inforadio” and described the process as “inevitable”.
The Presidium decided unanimously and with great clarity that Maassen’s statements and his “right-wing radicalization” were not compatible with the values of the CDU, said the parliamentary group leader. “It will therefore be necessary to draw the consequences next Monday.”
ultimatum expired
The CDU had asked the former president of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to voluntarily leave the party. However, Maaßen let the ultimatum of Sunday 12 p.m. pass. The CDU gave Maassen until Thursday to comment on his controversial statements. However, Maassen expressly confirmed his line in a tweet on Sunday, said Jung. “So far there is no indication that he is in any way moving away from his statements, but on the contrary is back on it again.”
Maassen had tweeted that a smear campaign had been running against him for weeks, showing “that we’re doing everything right. Only headwind gives our cause a boost! I’m looking forward to it!” Jung rejected the accusation of a “smear campaign”. “The presidium of the CDU gave very objective advice. His statements were evaluated.”
Haldenwang: “Very radical statements”
The assessment of the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, was also taken into account. At the end of January, he said that Maassen made “very radical statements” in appearance, “statements that I can only perceive in a similar way from the extreme right-wing of political endeavors”. Haldenwang also endorsed statements by the federal government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, who clearly saw anti-Semitic content.