CDU boss Armin Laschet has rejected demands to waive a mandate against Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU). “I say here in all clarity: Such a deserving man does not deserve to be pushed out of office by anyone. I will not tolerate that, ”said Laschet at the Junge Union (JU) Germany Day on Saturday in Münster to the great applause of the delegates.
Münster - The Bavarian JU chairman Christian Doleschal urged Schäuble to withdraw from parliament a few days ago. "Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauers and Peter Altmaier's waiver of their mandates deserves great respect and is a sign of the new beginning," the head of the CSU party youth had told "Spiegel". “Others should take this courageous step in the service of a renewal of the Union. Above all, those who have been in the Bundestag for several decades should think about this - for example Wolfgang Schäuble. "
Laschet said that he too had great respect for Altmaier and Kramp-Karrenbauer's move.
“But to deduce from this that now to tell everyone who is older, you have to get out of there, I think that's wrong.” Schäuble has been in numerous offices and merits since 1984 - for example as head of the Federal Chancellery, Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Minister of Finance and President of the Bundestag Politics is anchored like no other.
Because of his political commitment, he was assassinated, the consequences of which he is still bearing today, Laschet emphasized.
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