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Hans-Georg Maaßen
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Hans-Georg Maßen, former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is leaving the CDU.
“Today I decided to end my membership in the CDU,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
He will now concentrate on building the “Union of Values” as a “bourgeois party.”
He also posted a picture of a cut-up CDU membership card.
To justify this, Maaßen wrote that, in his opinion, the CDU had given up its values and basic beliefs in recent years.
"It only gives the impression of being a bourgeois alternative to the red-green party, but in the end it is just its variant." The party cannot be reformed.
At a recent meeting, the members of the “Union of Values” decided to transfer the name of their association to a party that had yet to be founded.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz has already announced that his party would burn all bridges to the “Union of Values” if it founded a party.
Most recently, the CDU sought party expulsion proceedings against Maaßen.
Maaßen's departure from the party means it is no longer valid.
The association was founded in 2017; its members felt that the course of then Chancellor Angela Merkel was not sufficiently conservative.
Soon afterwards, however, the club became increasingly radicalized.
Most recently, the “Values Union” attracted attention because two members took part in a meeting of right-wing networkers in Potsdam.
Apparently there was talk of plans for a mass expulsion of people with a migrant background from Germany.
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