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...Last week the 61-year-old resigned his membership of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union in order to concentrate on building his own political movement, the Values Union....
...The conservative Christian Democrats, which he failed to push into the AfD’s arms, has just thrown him out for using “language from the milieu of antisemites and conspiracy ideologues”....
...is being investigated for extremism — as a breakaway from the Christian Democrats on the right....
...Germany’s Christian Democrats not only lost the 2021 Bundestag elections but recorded their worst result in the Federal Republic’s history....
...His Christian Democrats lead with 29 per cent, with the AfD on 23 per cent....
...For one day only, political junkies will have their eyes trained on electoral district 196, a small corner of Thuringia where local Christian Democrats are expected to elect Hans-Georg Maassen, Germany’s...
...Even ultraconservatives such as Hans-Georg Maassen, the former head of German domestic intelligence who has become a rightwing standard-bearer (as we wrote back in April), have problems with Otte: he announced...
...Hans-Georg Maassen, a leading CDU hardliner and former head of German domestic intelligence, welcomed Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer’s announcement....
...Senior leaders of the centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD) called for Mr Maassen’s resignation immediately, while Horst Seehofer, the interior minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union...
...It comes less than a month after elections in Bavaria, in which the party Mr Seehofer leads, the Christian Social Union, lost its absolute majority and saw its share of the vote shrink by 10 percentage points...
...who also serves as leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union, the sister party of the chancellor’s CDU....
...Neither Angela Merkel nor her Christian Democrats are on the ballot paper in next month’s regional election in Bavaria....
...The chancellor and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union was later on Sunday expected to hold emergency talks with the heads of the Social Democratic SPD and the Christian Social Union, the...
...The Social Democrats had called for Mr Maassen’s head from the outset, while the Bavarian Christian Social Union was determined not to push him out against his will....
...It came just hours after Horst Seehofer, interior minister and leader of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, voiced strong support for Mr Maassen and dismissed opposition calls for the intelligence chief...
...Later, ministers became embroiled in another unseemly row over Hans-Georg Maaßen, head of the domestic intelligence agency, whom the SPD suspected of rightwing sympathies....
...Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats suffered a humbling setback in elections in the central region of Hesse on Sunday, in a result that could badly destabilise Angela Merkel’s grand coalition in Berlin....
...As Christian Democrats gathered for beer and speeches in the village of Langgöns last week, an oompah band broke into “Every Day Brings New Hope”, a popular local folk song....
...One of Angela Merkel’s closest allies has been unexpectedly voted out as head of her Christian Democrats’ parliamentary group, underscoring the sharp decline in the German chancellor’s political authority...
...The three-way alliance between her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) looks fragile, and prone to splits and...
...Hans-Georg Maassen, BfV president, has held several official meetings with its leaders, sparking criticism from leftwing politicians....
...GroKo troubles Germany’s grand coalition is squabbling again, this time over the fate of German spy chief Hans-Georg Maassen....
...Wolfgang Bosbach, a rightwing parliamentarian in Ms Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc, called for an “urgent end” to the practice of admitting asylum seekers without papers into Germany....
...Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the domestic BfV intelligence agency, has put it more bluntly....
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