The pressure on NRW Environment Minister Heinen-Esser was too great before the state elections in NRW. A stay in Mallorca during the flood disaster was her undoing. The minister throws in the towel.
A good five weeks before the state elections, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Environment Minister Ursula Heinen-Esser (CDU) wants to resign. The German press agency in Düsseldorf found out on Thursday.
Heinen-Esser had come under a lot of pressure from revelations in connection with the flood disaster. Accordingly, Heinen-Esser met with other government members in Mallorca a few days after the disaster last July to celebrate her husband’s birthday.
Building Minister Ina Scharrenbach (CDU), Europe Minister Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner (CDU) and then State Secretary Serap Güler (CDU) took part in a joint “dinner” on July 23 in Mallorca, Heinen-Esser confirmed on Thursday a report by “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger».
The SPD demanded the immediate dismissal of Heinen-Esser. “Mr. Wüst, fire Heinen-Esser – here and now!” said SPD MP Stefan Kämmerling (SPD) at the state parliament debate on the flood disaster. Greens and AfD called on Heinen-Esser to resign.
Heinen-Esser has been under criticism for a long time
The Minister of the Environment has been criticized for a long time because she briefly interrupted her stay in Mallorca after the flood on July 15, but then continued on July 16. She justified this in the state parliament’s investigative committee by saying that she had to bring back her underage daughter and her friends who had stayed on the island.
When Heinen-Esser then sent the committee her flight details, it became clear that on July 25 she, her husband and daughter had started their regular return flight, which had already been booked in February.
Source: Stern
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