Hans-Georg Maaßen does not want to run in the state elections in Thuringia. The 61-year-old is federal chairman of the ultra-conservative “Values Union” He wants to found a new party with it.
The CDU initiated party expulsion proceedings against Maaussen almost a year ago. He will now concentrate on building the “Union of Values’ as a “bourgeois party’“Today I decided to end my membership in the CDU,” he wrote on X.