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By: Laura May
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Most recently, Sahra Wagenknecht caused a political stir with her alliance.
Now Hans-Georg Maaßen wants to officially found his union of values.
Berlin – Ex-President for the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maaßen is serious.
After numerous scandals surrounding himself and possible right-wing extremist tendencies, he wants to turn the CDU-affiliated Values Union into its own party.
And this week, as he announced on Thursday (February 15) in Berlin.
The “Union of Values” party will finally be born in Bonn on Saturday.
According to dpa,
a majority of the Values Union association had
already voted in January to transfer the naming rights to Maaßen's party.
In addition to founding the party, the meeting on Saturday on a ship was also about deciding on statutes and the program.
Former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Maaßen is founding a party to the right of the Union.
(Archive photo) © Sascha Fromm/imago
Maaßen can imagine working with the AfD
The very conservative association of the Union of Values has existed for several years and is now intended to fill a supposed gap in the party system on the right of center.
There is debate about where the line lies between “right-wing CDU” and “right-wing extremist” or “right-wing populist”.
Maaßen himself positions himself to the right of the CDU/CSU in the political spectrum; he does not reject cooperation with the AfD - that is a key difference to the CDU/CSU.
In Maaßen's eyes, the CDU has lost its traditional values and is just “another version of a socialist party”.
His membership in the CDU ended last year after various differences and a party expulsion process.
The CDU leadership accused him, among other things, of using “language from the milieu of anti-Semites and conspiracy ideologists, including ethnic expressions.”
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The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution rates Maaßen as right-wing extremist
The former head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Maaßen, is now being targeted by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and is listed by the authority as a “right-wing extremist”.
The allegations are based on Maaßen's responsibility in the NSU trial, his relativization of Reich citizens and his statements on migration policy.
Now the controversial politician could run in three state elections.
Elections will take place in September in the three eastern German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg.
It is expected that the Union of Values will seek to participate in this.
After the newly founded Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), it would be the second new party for German democracy.
(Laura May)