The CDU leadership in Germany wants to throw ex-Verfassungsschutz chairman Hans-Georg Maassen out of the party. The federal board of directors unanimously decided to start a procedure to exclude the party, CDU chairman Friedrich Merz (CDU) said on Monday. In addition, his membership rights had already been revoked “with immediate effect”.
At the end of January, the CDU presidium already accused Maassen of “constantly violating the party’s principles and order”. The party leadership criticized the fact that Maaßen repeatedly used “language from the milieu of anti-Semites and conspiracy ideologues to ethnic expressions”.
A request to leave the party of his own accord was missed by Maassen last week. In this case, the Presidium had already asked the federal executive to “initiate party exclusion proceedings and revoke its membership rights with immediate effect.”
Maassen criticized the course of the CDU
The party court in Erfurt must now decide on the party exclusion, Merz said. The CDU leadership assumes that Maassen will not accept the decision. However, the party leadership “cannot accept” that Maassen accuses the CDU of following a “leftist” and “anti-German” course. “The underlying ideas have no place in the German CDU.”
Source: Krone
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