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The affair about the profits of members of the Bundestag in the procurement of corona protective masks is putting the Union under severe pressure shortly before important state elections.
The MPs Georg Nüßlein (CSU) and Nikolas Löbel (CDU) have announced their exit from the Union parliamentary group, but want to keep their mandate, although the party and parliamentary group leadership are demanding their withdrawal.
Green leader Robert Habeck noted a fundamental problem in view of the affair.
“Neither party is immune from individual cases of personal missteps.
But in the case of the Union, there is a lot of evidence that it is a structural and systematic problem, ”said Habeck of the German press agency.
Apparently it has been forgotten that MPs and ministers are committed to the well-being of the people, not their own.
SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil demanded that the previous Union MEPs Löbel and Nüßlein not only renounce their parliamentary mandate but also hand over the profits they had made by brokering mask deals.
“They have to pay back this million,” says Klingbeil of “Bild”.
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