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JU boss angry: Domain affair splits Unterhachinger CSU

2020-02-16T16:41:54.819Z


The anger over the hijacked websites of political competition is making waves. The chairman of the JU is pissed off and there has already been a party exit.


The anger over the hijacked websites of political competition is making waves. The chairman of the JU is pissed off and there has already been a party exit.

Whether Renate Fichtinger is looking for the reset button afterwards, or would you prefer to reset everything again? The “digital prank”, as she called the “domain grabbing” of name websites of political competition, is now flying around the Unterhachingen CSU mayor candidate like a boomerang. The fact that Renate Fichtinger shifted responsibility for this to the Young Union sparked outrage there and even led to a party leaving the party. The chairman of the JU Unterhaching, Lorenz Kroll, defends himself against the allegations - the 23-year-old stresses the candidate for mayor and the CSU branch with clear words.

"Clear lie and false statement"

"In no case is it true that the Unterhaching University is behind the 'domain grabbing'," Lorenz Kroll assures Munich-based Merkur. The action goes "on the sole action" of Korbinian Rausch, JU vice and member of the local council. That Rausch and Fichtinger had tried to attribute the scapegoat role to the JU's controversial action as a whole is "a clear lie and false statement".

According to Kroll, the justifiable idea of ​​redirecting name websites from Mayor Wolfgang Panzer (SPD) and Greens candidate Armin Konetschny to Renate Fichtinger did not come "from the JU". On the contrary, a week before the campaign, Korbinian Rausch announced the "digital joke" in a CSU-internal WhatsApp group. "I thought they were crazy now," says Lorenz Kroll. He immediately searched for court rulings, even found lawsuits by the CSU against violations of naming rights and warned Renate Fichtinger and the new CSU local chairman Klaus Weidlich of "domain grabbing". Fichtinger gave her okay anyway, the action was carried out - and after a storm of criticism, the JU was blamed for it.

The JU as a scapegoat

"The fact that mistakes are rolled out to the JU by individuals and that the JU should serve as a scapegoat is a deep breach of trust between the CSU branch and the JU Unterhaching," says Lorenz Kroll. He demands "personal consequences" from Korbinian Rausch in the form of a "public correction".

The position of Rausch in the local council would also shake. "If it turns out that he is behind it, I expect his immediate resignation from the local council, because the basis for a trusting cooperation has been destroyed," said Mayor Wolfgang Panzer (SPD).

Already a party exit

The Internet campaign even led to “question marks on the employer's side” for Julia Bernhard, who was previously an assessor on the JU board - she works as a lawyer in a law firm. "I dissociate myself completely from this not only legally extremely questionable, but also embarrassing and sharply criticized action," says Julia Bernhard. The fact that the whole thing took place completely behind her back was "very shameful for me as a lawyer". For JU and CSU Unterhaching, she sees "massive damage". She has nothing to do with it anymore: Julia Bernhard declared her departure from the JU and CSU at the weekend. Lorenz Kroll, meanwhile, announced that he wanted to continue as chair of the JU: "I won't let myself be bent."

Source: merkur

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