The Maaßen Party is founded this week. The new party should be located to the right of the CDU/CSU in the political spectrum.
It is expected that the Values Union party, like the BSW, will aim to take part in the state elections in September in the three eastern German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. The 61-year-old recently made it public that his former employer, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, had stored data about him in the area of right-wing extremism.