2024-07-18 14:50:46
The Brandenburg parliamentary group leader was caught driving a scooter with a blood alcohol level of 1.3 per mille. He promises to improve.
Brandenburg’s CDU state and parliamentary group leader Jan Redmann was stopped by police while driving an electric scooter with a blood alcohol level of 1.3 per mille. Redmann, the CDU’s top candidate for the state elections in the fall, admitted a mistake. At the same time, he announced that he wanted to remain the top candidate.
“I will bear the consequences of my mistake,” said Redmann. He has already voluntarily handed in his driving license. Redmann also referred to a transparent approach to the incident. A case is currently underway. The CDU politician announced that he would “continue the election campaign unabated and fight for our ideas for Brandenburg.” He owes it to the CDU to get even more involved.
According to his own account, the state and parliamentary group leader was stopped by the police during a routine check on Thursday in Potsdam on his way home from an evening with friends on an e-scooter. The officers asked him to take a breathalyzer test. The quick test showed a breath alcohol content of 1.3 per mille.
“I am applying for the office of Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg – the citizens have the right to know who this Jan Redmann is.” He is someone “who wants to and can take responsibility, but also someone who is not free from mistakes and stands by them, even if it is personally painful.” “I ask the people of Brandenburg to judge me on the basis of my political ideas and solutions for the future of the state and not on the basis of a mistake that I myself am most sorry about.”