Government officials had initially said that Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff did not want to get involved in the discussion about a CDU district board member with connections to the neo-Nazi scene. Now he has said: "Without ifs and buts: swastikas and CDU are not possible," said the CDU top politician of the "Mitteldeutsche Zeitung".
Haseloff left open what this means for the current case in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district association. There the CDU politician Robert Möritz had admitted that he had previously been used as a folder on a neo-Nazi demo. In addition, he was still a member of the Uniter association suspected of being right-wing extremists and, according to CDU chief Matthias Egert, tattooed a symbol popular with right-wing extremists with several swastikas on top of each other.
The party committees should now discuss how to deal with the case, Haseloff told the "Mitteldeutsche Zeitung". The CDU leadership wants to process the events on Thursday evening at a meeting with all the screech bosses.
Wolfgang Schäuble, President of the Bundestag, had previously said: "Democratic parties and especially the party to which I belong can have nothing to do with neo-Nazis," the CDU politician told the news channel n-tv. The CDU district executive in Anhalt-Bitterfeld had initially decided to express confidence in his assessor Möritz and to waive the consequences.
According to those responsible, Möritz had credibly distanced himself from his neo-Nazi past. The decision to keep the man on the board caused a nationwide debate and dispute in the black-red-green coalition.
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