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Union of Values comes together to found the party
The 61-year-old Maaßen says he wants to run for party leadership. photo
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In January, the conservative Values Union association, which has long been close to the CDU, set the course for the founding of the party at a general meeting. Now the founding meeting follows.
The conservative Values Union association, which has long been close to the CDU, set the course for the founding of the party in January at a general meeting in Erfurt by transferring the naming rights. A Maaßen party would be the second prominent new formation in 2024. At the beginning of the year, the Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) alliance of the former left-wing politician had already formed as a party. According to representatives of the Union of Values, the new party will run in the state elections in September in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, but not in the European elections in June.
Maaßen, against whom the CDU executive board initiated expulsion proceedings in 2023, resigned from the CDU in January. He recently made it public that his former employer, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, had stored data about him in the area of right-wing extremism.