Caroline Bosbach: CDU shifts board meeting to cash allegations

The district board of the CDU Rhein-Berg in North Rhine-Westphalia is moving its session planned for Saturday to the allegations against the member of the Bundestag Caroline Bosbach.

The board had originally asked the 35-year-old to answer a number of open questions up to this Friday. The board wanted to evaluate these answers at the meeting on Saturday. But now the CDU of the Rheinisch-Bergische Kreis announced that Caroline Bosbach would be met for a personal conversation at the weekend. Place and time would not be communicated publicly.

“The aim is to personally discuss the open questions and to discuss the further procedure,” said the CDU. The board meeting will be made up for later, a new appointment has not yet been determined.

Bosbach had previously denied all allegations against himself. On the one hand, it is about your choice to the district board of the Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion (with) in your Rheinisch-Bergische constituency in 2023. The news portal “T-Online” and the ARD magazine “Contrasts” had reported that Bosbach had given the prospect of an entry of 90 euros, which corresponds to an annual fee. In some cases, it was rounded up to 100 euros. Free hospitality is also said to have been promised. According to the media reports, the choice of the management team, which Caroline Bosbach also belonged to, should be secured.

Had previously had star and RTL/NTV reports on allegations that Bosbach is said to have accepted 2500 euros from a CDU party account via detours. The CDU politician also denies this. “I have not enriched myself and the CDU Rhein-Berg did not damage,” she said in a video. The fact that the district board handed over all documents from the Cologne public prosecutor for an independent examination expressly support them.