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Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder: Negotiation postponed again
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Exclusion proceedings against former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder are currently pending at the SPD in Hanover.
The reason is his relations with Russia.
The hearing was scheduled for Wednesday.
Now the SPD sub-district has canceled this at short notice.
The chairman of the arbitration commission, Heiger Scholz, is ill with Corona and recovery by Wednesday is not foreseeable, according to the reasoning.
The Arbitration Commission will meet this afternoon in a video conference and set a new hearing date.
It goes on to say: “This hearing date will not be able to take place until the middle of the 27th calendar week at the earliest, since there must be at least a period of two weeks between the summons of the parties involved and the oral hearing.” The hearing will therefore not be able to take place until the beginning of July at the earliest.
This is the second time that the hearing has been adjourned.
It was originally supposed to take place last week, but was then postponed to the current week.
The reason for this was the illness of a member of the responsible arbitration committee.
Schröder is accused, among other things, of having continued to work for Russian energy companies despite the war of aggression against Ukraine.
In the meantime, however, the former chancellor has decided not to run again as chairman of the supervisory board of the oil company Rosneft.
Schröder also recently refrained from being nominated for the Gazprom group.
Most recently, Schröder had some of his privileges as former chancellor removed.
The budget committee had decided to end the financing of several employees in the Berlin office of the social democrat.
Schröder then announced that he would have the decision legally examined.
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