The Union of Values wants to run in three state elections in East Germany in the fall. She already has another goal in mind.
The conservative union of values is already looking beyond the three state elections in East Germany to next year. “Our goal is of course the federal election,” said chairman Hans-Georg Maaßen to the dpa after the founding of the Brandenburg state association. Personnel and organization are still needed for the federal election. Maaßen described the state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg in the fall, in which the Union of Values wants to run, as “very interesting” for his party.
The Union of Values, founded in February, wants to recruit voters to the right of the Union. Maaßen, who was formerly President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, sees no overlap with the AfD. “The AfD is a different party,” said Maaßen. “We come from the CDU.” The chairman criticized the development of the CDU under the former party leader and Chancellor Angela Merkel. “We continued what the CDU was, where at some point under Merkel it lost its way and went down the wrong path.”
The Union of Values has already founded six regional associations – this should continue. Further start-ups are planned in Lower Saxony, Hamburg and Saarland, said Maaßen. In Brandenburg, the Union of Values founded a regional association last Sunday, and in North Rhine-Westphalia last Saturday. In Brandenburg, it is opposing extremism, calling for the immediate deportation of foreigners who are required to leave the country, less bureaucracy and the abolition of the Berlin-Brandenburg public broadcaster (RBB) in its current form.
The ex-President for the Protection of the Constitution expects a lengthy legal dispute over the storage of data about him by his former authority. At the end of January it became known that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had stored data on Maaßen in the authority’s information system in the area of right-wing extremism. Maaßen filed a lawsuit against this. “This will keep us busy for a few years,” he said.
Source: Stern
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