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The member of the Bundestag, Nikolas Löbel, who has come under pressure, draws further conclusions from the affair about business with corona masks and immediately gives back his mandate in the Bundestag.

"In order to avert further damage to my party, I am resigning my parliamentary mandate with immediate effect," he announced on Monday.

First the "Bild" reported.

The affair of the questionable business with corona masks had brought the Union in the southwest a week before the state election in distress.

After intense pressure from the Union, the 34-year-old had initially announced that he would resign from his Bundestag mandate at the end of August and not - as planned - run for the next Bundestag.

Numerous CDU politicians in the federal and state levels as well as his district association in Mannheim then urged Löbel, sometimes with drastic words, to withdraw immediately from the Bundestag.

The CDU parliamentarian had previously confirmed that he was involved in business with corona protective masks and admitted errors.

His company has collected commissions of around 250,000 euros because it brokered purchase contracts for masks between a Baden-Württemberg supplier and two private companies in Heidelberg and Mannheim.

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At first he only withdrew from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag.

On Sunday, however, he announced his withdrawal from politics before the crisis meeting of the Mannheim district executive.

He would immediately withdraw from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

However, he does not want to return his parliamentary mandate until the end of August.

Before Löbel, the previous Union parliamentary deputy Nüßlein was the focus of the mask affair.

The CSU politician is being investigated because of the initial suspicion of corruption in connection with the purchase of masks.

Nüßlein's lawyer announced on Friday that the 51-year-old would withdraw from federal politics because of the corruption investigations against him.

Nüßlein also resigned from the office of vice-chief of the Union parliamentary group, which he had initially abandoned.