You can't be more isolated: The Vaterstetten town council unanimously asked AfD-Schmidt to resign from office with immediate effect.
Vaterstetten - On Thursday evening, February 13, the local council in Vaterstetten asked the AfD local council Manfred Schmidt to resign his mandate with immediate effect. The 82-year-old is accused of putting citizens of the community against their will on lists of the right-wing radical AfD for the local election in March.
100 demonstrators in front of the town hall
After a demonstration in front of the town hall, to which the Greens had called and in which around 100 Vaterstetten residents took part, the “machinations” (SPD councilor Sepp Mittermeier) were subsequently condemned sharply across the factions. He had done serious damage to the community and democracy. Green spokesman Axel Weingärtner added to Schmidt: "What you did to people and their families is shabby and unworthy."
Schmidt shows no regrets
Manfred Schmidt (AfD) in the council meeting.
© Stefan Rossmann
Schmidt himself showed no regrets. The allegations against him are "adventurous claims" and defamatory accusations ". When referring to his candidates, he referred to the AfD lists “without exception and expressly”. "I always fight with my visor open," he added. CSU parliamentary group spokesman Michael Niebler stated Schmidt "complete denial of reality". Schmidt did not complete the list, "then you tricked". This is a unique process in Germany. The fact that the AfD has announced a party exclusion procedure against the 82-year-old is "the maximum penalty" for Schmidt. Niebler said literally: “The local council no longer wants to have anything to do with you. You are through below. "
Email as evidence
Schmidt denied having known about the Alzheimer's disease of a 74-year-old man whom he had put on the AfD list. But he couldn't get away with it that evening. 2. Mayor Martin Wagner (CSU) quoted in the packed conference room from an email that Schmidt had sent to the town hall of the municipality in a different context some time ago. In it he spoke of the man's illness. CSU councilor Niebler quoted Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CSU) and said to Schmidt: "Isch over".
