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Hans-Georg Maaßen, former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is a witness on an investigative committee of the Thuringian state parliament.
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Another new party: Ex-President for the Protection of the Constitution Maaßen got the green light from the very conservative Values Union association in January to found a party - now the date has been set.
Berlin - Ex-President for the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maaßen is starting his project to found a party.
This Saturday (February 17th) the “Union of Values” party is to be launched in Bonn.
In addition to founding the party, the meeting on a ship was also about deciding on statutes and the program, said Maaßen on Thursday in Berlin.
The “General-Anzeiger” first reported on the appointment.
The new party should be located to the right of the CDU/CSU in the political spectrum.
The Values Union association, which has existed for several years - a very conservative and formerly CDU-affiliated association with several thousand members - set the course for the founding of the party at a general meeting in Erfurt in January.
According to the association, a large majority of members agreed to transfer the naming rights to the Values Union to the planned new party.
The club should also remain in existence.
A Maaßen party would be the second prominent new founding in 2024. At the beginning of the year, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) of the former left-wing politician was founded as a party.
It is expected that the Values Union party, like the BSW, will aim to take part in the state elections in September in the three eastern German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
Maaßen, against whom the CDU leadership initiated party expulsion proceedings last year, resigned from the CDU, of which he had been a member for a long time, at the end of January.
The CDU leadership accused him, among other things, of using “language from the milieu of anti-Semites and conspiracy ideologists, including ethnic expressions”.
The 61-year-old recently made it public that his former employer, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, had stored data about him in the area of right-wing extremism in the authority's information system.
dpa