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Ex-constitution protection chief Hans-Georg Maaßen (archive recording)
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In the Union, the criticism of her Bundestag candidate Hans-Georg Maaßen after a tweet about the Green leader Annalena Baerbock is growing.
The former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution combined the first letters of Baerbock's full name with the anti-police abbreviation "ACAB" (All Cops are Bastards).
"I actually see him as a burden in the election campaign," said CSU General Secretary Markus Blume in the "Bild" broadcast "The Right Questions".
Maassen would "always confuse the coordinates a bit," said Blume, referring to his dealings with the AfD.
But only one thing is correct: "Very clear demarcation." Because: "You can't stink over a skunk."
CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak made a similar statement: "This tweet is impossible, unspeakable." He added: "That is not our level, not my level."
CSU Deputy Chief Dorothee Bär also attacked Maaßen.
“We separate ourselves quite clearly from such unspeakable tendencies.
I want a fair election campaign in which nobody is discredited on the basis of any name, ”she told the“ world ”.
The winner of the election in Saxony-Anhalt, CDU Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff, said on the evening of the election, “Those who are difficult people in East Germany, they all come from the West”.
Also Maassen had "not been socialized with us," emphasized Haseloff.
He called for "a political culture to be cultivated again that avoids certain failures."
Maaßen is applying for a Bundestag mandate for the CDU in South Thuringia.
Meanwhile, Maaßen claims that he did not mean it seriously: "That was an ironic tweet," he said on the "Bild" broadcast.
In the past few weeks he himself had repeatedly been accused of using anti-Semitic ciphers, for example, which was "complete nonsense".
And the first letters of Baerbock's name "can be stupidly interpreted as a cipher."
as / AFP