In a tweet, Maassen had claimed that the thrust of the “driving forces in the political and media space” was “eliminatory racism against whites”.
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Berlin The controversial former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maassen (CDU), has let the ultimatum set by the CDU leadership to voluntarily leave the party expire, according to the CDU. “The federal office of the CDU Germany has no resignation from Dr. Maaßen,” said a CDU spokesman for the German Press Agency in Berlin on Sunday. Thuringia’s CDU General Secretary Christian Herrgott also said on Sunday: “We have no reaction from Mr. Maassen.”
The spokesman for the federal party further announced, “in the event that has now apparently occurred that Dr. Maaßen does not leave the party voluntarily by 5 February at 12:00 p.m.,” the presidency has applied to the federal executive board of the CDU to initiate party exclusion proceedings against Maaßen and to withdraw his membership rights with immediate effect.