Maaßen wants to bring a union of values into the Thuringian state parliament. According to Maaßen, it is the first regional association of the Union of Values in Germany, which should follow in Saxony.
He sees himself as a bourgeois alternative to Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow. In an Insa survey in March, the union ofvalues in Thurringia was only at one percent; in a potential analysis commissioned by her at 5 to 15 percent.