The CDU starts the party exclusion procedure against the controversial Hans-Georg Maassen. In turn, he complains about an unfair game against him and the union of values. The arguments are "absurd", the reasons for the procedure "constructed". This should prevent a course correction by the CDU, oracles Maaßen.
The former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maassen, complained about an "unfair" game after the decision to throw him out of the CDU. The voters and party members understood "despite the partial agitation in the media" that "me and the union of values are being played unfairly," Maassen explained in the evening.
It is clear "that reasons for excluding a party are constructed with absurd arguments." Ultimately, it's not about him; in truth, it should be prevented "that the moderates and the conservatives in the CDU regain influence and achieve a course correction in the party". In view of "the unjustified, defamatory and, above all, unprovable attacks", he and the union of values, of which Maassen is now chairman, are "relaxed and unemotional" about the exclusion process, according to a press release from the right-wing conservative association.
The CDU federal executive had previously decided unanimously to initiate proceedings to exclude Maassen from the party. In addition, the 60-year-old's membership rights were withdrawn with immediate effect. At the end of January, the CDU presidium accused Maassen of "continuously violating the principles and order of the party". The party leadership criticized the fact that Maassen repeatedly used "language from the milieu of anti-Semites and conspiracy ideologues to ethnic expressions".
"The clear dividing line was drawn today," said CDU chairman Friedrich Merz. The CDU is conservative, liberal and Christian-social, "but we are not right-wing extremists and we are not approaching the AfD either." It is therefore necessary to show that the "fire wall" against the right also stands in this case.
