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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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The Union of Values around the former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, met in Remagen am Rhein to found a party.
According to a dpa reporter, Maaßen and around 20 supporters boarded a ship in the Rolandseck district on Saturday, which then set off.
The Union of Values had kept the location secret - Bonn was initially named as the conference location.
Berlin/Remagen - According to earlier information, a statute and a program will also be decided at the founding meeting.
The 61-year-old Maaßen says he wants to run for party leadership.
The conservative, long-time CDU-affiliated association Values Union set the course for the founding of the party in January at a general meeting in Erfurt by transferring the naming rights.
A Maaßen party would be the second prominent new formation in 2024. At the beginning of the year, the Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) alliance of the former left-wing politician had already formed as a party.
According to representatives of the Union of Values, the new party will run in the state elections in September in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, but not in the European elections in June.
Maaßen, against whom the CDU executive board initiated expulsion proceedings in 2023, resigned from the CDU in January.
He 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.
dpa