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CDU MP Pfeiffer (archive image)
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After the publication of confidential financial data on company investments, the CDU member of the Bundestag Joachim Pfeiffer is apparently withdrawing: Pfeiffer resigns from his position as energy and economic policy spokesman for the Union parliamentary group and resigns the nomination for the Bundestag election, reports "Welt am Sonntag".
"I will not run again in the upcoming election to the German Bundestag in September this year," the 53-year-old told the newspaper.
He will return the nomination already made in the constituency.
The reason is therefore not the mask affair in the Union, but the publication of confidential financial data related to Pfeiffer's company investments.
The CDU member sees himself as the target of "highly criminal actions" and speaks of a "targeted hacker attack," it says in the report.
Pfeiffer himself was initially unavailable to answer questions.
The Waiblingen member of the Bundestag, who is the district chairman of the CDU Rems-Murr, was recently criticized for alleging conflicts of interest between his companies and his parliamentary work.
mic / dpa