CDU dispute over Wanderwitz: Eastern Commissioner should leave the Bundestag – Dresden

Dresden – With his accusations against the East Germans that they were “socialized by the dictatorship” and that significant parts of the population had “solid, non-democratic views”, he heated up the minds before the election, especially in East Germany.

The receipt: Marco Wanderwitz (45, CDU) lost his direct mandate in the constituency of Chemnitz / Erzgebirge to an AfD competitor, of all places. Wanderwitz saved himself only through the state list in parliament.

In the Saxony CDU, the controversial West Saxony is jointly responsible for Sunday’s election failure (only third place behind AfD and SPD). Saxony’s CDU boss, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (46), for example, recently called his statements in the election campaign “unhelpful”.

Now the first Saxon CDU politician is even demanding that the Federal Government’s (still) Eastern Commissioner leave parliament. The Freiberg Steve Johannes Ittershagen (45), until 2019 among other things in the parliamentary committee of the CDU parliamentary group, now vented his frustration via Facebook.

“In my opinion, Mr. Wanderwitz failed in several ways. As the top candidate of the Saxon Union and (and this weighs much more heavily) as the federal government’s commissioner for the East, ”rumbles Ittershagen. Many East Germans felt discredited by Wanderwitz ‘statements. Incidentally, this is “symptomatic of the entire federal government that is still in office.”

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Ittershagen closes his attack with the “suggestion” to Wanderwitz, “maybe it would be good if he too took a break and instead of belonging to the Bundestag, prefers to join the working population.

Wanderwitz, on the other hand, received indirect support from the new Saxon CDU regional group leader Carsten Körber (42).

To the Deutschlandfunk said he, in essence, Wanderwitz was unfortunately right with his statements. He made “a brain drain”, that is, the emigration since 1989, for the strength of the political fringes in the Free State “The problem on the far right is a bigger one than on the far left and Saxony,” said Körber.

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