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Berlin (dpa) - FDP leader Christian Lindner has called for a special investigator to be set up to clear up the affair of commissions from members of the Bundestag for the procurement of corona protective masks.
You also have to look at what “happened on the other side of the procurement process, in other words in the ministries,” said Lindner on Monday in the RTL / n-tv program “Frühstart”.
"The CDU / CSU would certainly be well advised to demand a special investigator who, with special powers and access to files, creates transparency and clarity as an independent personality," emphasized Lindner.
The AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla suggested that Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble could take on this task.
"He has to slip into the role of the special investigator and get to the bottom of the serious allegations," says Chrupalla.
After all, citizens have a right to find out whether other MPs have "cashed in heavily".
"In view of the mask affair I am already calling for an investigative committee," said Lindner of the German press agency.
“I can understand the emotional state, but that is not a suitable idea, as the legislative period will end in a few weeks.
The public also needs clarity more quickly than a review in the coming legislative period. "
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The federal government should now take action "and in its own interest appoint an independent special investigator," said Lindner.
“The processes in the ministries should be checked immediately and with access to files, so that a report can be submitted before the federal election.
Damage to the credibility of politics as a whole must be averted. "
The MPs Georg Nüßlein (CSU) and Nikolas Löbel (CDU) are said to have collected six-figure commissions for the mediation of mask shops.
Both have declared their exit from the Union faction.
Nüßlein, however, wants to keep his mandate, although the party and parliamentary group leadership demand his withdrawal.
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