Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) will have to give a lot of answers today. In the morning, the Interior Committee pesters them about transferring the head of the authority, Arne Schönbohm. At lunchtime she will face the Bundestag – but on different topics.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) has two appointments today that she would certainly like to delete from her calendar. The Bundestag Interior Committee’s survey begins behind closed doors at 10 a.m. It’s about the affair of the transferred head of the authority, Arne Schönbohm. Faeser dismissed Schönbohm as head of the Federal Office for Information Security in November because of his alleged proximity to Russia. The “Bild” newspaper, among others, recently reported that the minister later had the Office for the Protection of the Constitution collect information about the deposed head of the authority. Schönbohm has now filed a lawsuit – he is demanding compensation from the Interior Ministry for his removal.
The Union in particular is convinced that the minister acted incorrectly here. The SPD politician had recently publicly denied this several times and described the criticism as “theatrical thunder”, which was probably related to her role as her party’s top candidate in the state elections in Hesse on October 8th.
FDP parliamentary group deputy Konstantin Kuhle criticized the fact that Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) only appeared for a questioning in the Interior Committee after the third invitation. It would have been good if the questioning about the allegations surrounding the former President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Arne Schönbohm, could have taken place two or three weeks ago, the domestic politician said on ZDF’s “Morgenmagazin” on Wednesday “. “In this respect, the Interior Minister is too late.” However, Kuhle, who is also a member of the Interior Committee, was confident that Faeser would succeed in dispelling the allegations. He criticized the Union for now bringing up the issue despite more important issues such as migration. “I don’t think the allegations are supported by evidence at the moment,” he said.
The Bundestag also questions Nancy Faeser
From 1 p.m. Faeser will continue in public in the plenary session of the Bundestag. After Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) had to cancel at short notice due to a corona infection, the Federal Minister of the Interior is now answering questions from MPs. This is probably, among other things, about asylum and migration policy, for which Faeser bears significant responsibility.
Source: Stern
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