Federal election 2021: Hans-Georg Maaßen wants to run for the CDU in Thuringia.
Now a second district association is voting for him.
Erfurt- Will ex-Constitutional Protection President Georg Maaßen move into the Bundestag in autumn?
His prospects are improving: A second CDU district association in Thuringia has now spoken out in favor of running him as a direct candidate for the federal election on September 26th.
The CDU General Secretary Christian Herrgott said on
dpa
request.
According to God, the district board of Hildburghausen in southern Thuringia voted for Maaßen on Monday evening.
The district association Schmalkalden-Meiningen proposed the controversial Maaßen because of its positions in migration policy, among other things.
MDR Thuringia had previously reported on it.
Federal election 2021: Söder and other politicians warned against Maaßen's nomination
Several members of the Bundestag from Thuringia and Saxony, but also CSU leader Markus Söder, had warned the CDU in southern Thuringia against a nomination by Maaßen.
“This is insane,” said the Federal Government's Eastern Commissioner, the Saxon CDU member of the Bundestag, Marco Wanderwitz, about Maassen's intended candidate for the Bundestag.
“From my point of view, Mr. Maassen has long been incompatible with the Christian Democratic Union in terms of style and content,” he said to the
editorial network Germany (RND)
at the beginning of April.
Parts of the South Thuringian CDU had held on to their proposal even after a crisis discussion with Thuringia's regional chief Christian Hirte.
According to Herrgott, it is still unclear whether there are opposing candidates from southern Thuringia to Maaßen, who comes from North Rhine-Westphalia.
Maassen wants to go to the Bundestag - Thuringian CDU expects "clear" AfD demarcation from all candidates
The Thuringian CDU state executive made it clear that it expects "a clear demarcation from the AfD" from every candidate who is nominated in Thuringia for the state or federal elections on September 26th.
The candidate search is about constituency 196 in southern Thuringia.
He is free after the local candidate Mark Hauptmann left the CDU in the course of the mask affair.
As President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Maassen came under massive criticism at the time because he had doubted that foreigners would be “hunted down” after the killing of a German in Chemnitz.
In November 2018, Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) put him into temporary retirement.
Maaßen advocates a tough course in migration policy.
After he lost his post as President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, there was temporary speculation that he could join the AfD.
At that time there were also rumors about a possible CDU party exclusion procedure, which did not take place.
(dpa / AFP / frs)
