In the debate about a possible party expulsion from the CDU, the former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maassen, rejected allegations that he was using racist language.
“I emphatically reject that. These are pure allegations, that is defamatory,” he said on Deutschlandfunk on Tuesday. Maassen did not want to commit himself to how he would deal with the request that he should leave the CDU. First of all, he expects the CDU to submit documents that he then wants to examine legally.
The CDU Presidium decided on Monday to give Maassen a deadline for leaving until February 5 at 12 noon (CET). If Maassen has not left the CDU by then, the presidium will apply to the federal executive committee to initiate a party exclusion procedure and the immediate withdrawal of membership rights. “There is no place in our party for his statements and the ideas expressed with them,” the decision said.
Again and again the former president of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution uses “the language from the milieu of anti-Semites and conspiracy ideologues up to ethnic expressions”. Maassen violates “constantly against the principles and order of the party”. (Reuters)
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Source: Tagesspiegel
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