When the lucrative business with corona protective masks became known not only by backbenchers of the Union, panic broke out in the leadership of the CDU and CSU a year before the election bankruptcy.
After all, it is incompatible with the values of a Christian party to use the plight of a deadly epidemic to collect millions in commissions for mask deals through close ties to party friends in government offices.
The political ostracism was followed by investigations by the judiciary into suspected bribery of elected officials.
The fact that the two former CSU parliamentarians Nüßlein and Sauter were successful with their complaint before the Munich Higher Regional Court can be understood as a reproach to the legislature in the Bundestag.
Because the two legally savvy MPs apparently knew very well about the loopholes in paragraph 108e.
According to this, it is not a violation of the law if a member of parliament uses his contacts to influence decisions outside of parliament - in this case the vote of the health ministries in the federal government and in Bavaria to buy masks from a textile company.
The two may well keep their high fees.
Their business may have been legal and rewarding, but it was not politically and morally legitimate.