Dresden (dpa / sn) - The conservative homeland union in Saxony has approved the controversial statements by the Bautzen CDU district administrator on the accommodation of refugees. "Apparently representatives from the green-left camp, but also some within our party, do not want to understand the Bautzen district administrator Udo Witschas," said the head of the homeland union, Sven Eppinger, on Friday in Dresden. The Heimatunion is a grassroots movement within the Saxon CDU - as a result of quarrels, the Saxon offshoot of the Values Union in the CDU decided to continue under the name Heimatunion.
In a video published on Facebook on Tuesday, Witschas said, among other things, that refugees in the district should not be housed in gyms or in decentralized accommodation. "It is not our intention to let sports, whether school or leisure sports, bleed for this asylum policy." In addition, the district office does not want to "accommodate people who come to us, who do not know our culture, who do not know our regulations, here in apartment buildings and vacant apartments and accept the threat to social peace".
The federal CDU then sharply criticized the district administrator. "We emphatically distance ourselves from the choice of words by the Bautzen District Administrator," said CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja. He spoke expressly on behalf of party leader Friedrich Merz, the entire executive board of the federal party "and the Christian Democrats in Germany". CDU politicians had also expressed criticism in Saxony. CDU state chief and Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer saw the district administrator's statements taken out of context.
Eppinger now said that "Germany must focus its few remaining options on decent accommodation and care for real war refugees." This particularly affects women and children from Ukraine.
