Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder continues to maintain business relations with Russia’s President Putin. But you don’t do business with a warmonger, emphasizes SPD chairman Klingbeil.
SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil has called on former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to end his business relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He also expects a clear behavior from Schröder these days, wrote Klingbeil on Facebook on Saturday. “He rightly condemned the illegal war in Ukraine. But: This war is being initiated solely by Putin.” And that’s why there can only be one logical conclusion: “You don’t do business with an aggressor, with a warmonger like Putin. As a former Federal Chancellor, you never act completely privately. Especially not in a situation like the current one. It is therefore long overdue to end business relations with Putin. I expect that unequivocally.”
Several Social Democrats had previously criticized the attitude of the SPD leadership to Schröder. The former chancellor is considered a longtime friend of Putin. He is also the head of the supervisory board at the Russian state-owned energy company Rosneft and has management positions in the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipeline projects Government put on hold.
Schröder was last noticed because he criticized Ukrainian demands for arms deliveries as “saber rattling” before the Russian attack. Klingbeil then repeatedly emphasized that Schröder did not represent the opinion of the SPD.
Source: Stern
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