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Alleged ex-neo-Nazi Möritz: CDU head of district calls exit as "right decision"

2019-12-20T13:02:07.517Z


He had preceded the move with an exclusion: The CDU district association welcomed the exit of the alleged ex-neo-Nazi Robert Möritz from the party. The case had led to a coalition crisis.



A week ago, the district executive in Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Robert Möritz, expressed confidence despite the revealed connections to the neo-Nazi scene. Now the CDU head of the CDU, Matthias Egert, has described the departure of his previous assessor from the party as the right step. Möritz had thus pre-empted a party, said Egert.

Möritz had recently admitted to being a folder at a neo-Nazi demonstration years ago. At the time of the district decision, he was also a member of the controversial Uniter association, which is accused of links to the right-wing extremist milieu. Möritz wears a tattoo made from several superimposed swastikas, a "black sun", popular with right-wing extremists, and can be seen on older photos with a neo-Nazi band from Halle.

On Thursday evening, top representatives of the state CDU Saxony-Anhalt advised the district chiefs on how to deal with the case and unanimously decided that wearing Nazi symbols and signs of the scene was incompatible with a CDU membership (read more here) , They also asked Möritz to fully disclose his contacts in the extremist scene. If other circumstances became known, the party would automatically be excluded. Möritz has now withdrawn from this procedure with his resignation.

Greens call exit an important sign

He thinks the agreed procedure of the screech bosses is fair and appropriate and voted for it himself, said the Anhalt-Bitterfeld screech boss Egert. A week ago, his association decided based on different facts, he said. "What makes us evaluate things differently now is, above all, the salami tactic of conceding things."

The coalition partners of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt, Greens and SPD, reacted differently to the withdrawal. The fact that the CDU has now started to show that a clear border to right-wing extremism is necessary is important for democracy in the country. It is significant, however, that the person who was subject to the demarcation has now left the CDU, Green Party chief Sebastian Striegel told SPIEGEL.

The SPD welcomed the move. Apparently "the pressure from outside and recently within the CDU has become so great that Mr. Möritz now sees no more space for himself in the CDU," said SPD state vice-president Katja Pahl.


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Source: spiegel

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