The Bavarian SPD district of Upper Palatinate has unanimously passed a motion for the expulsion of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder due to his closeness to Vladimir Putin, while there is disagreement within the party about the likelihood of success of such a procedure. #Schröder #Putin #SPD (translated)
Regina Laska wrote that CDA chairman Dennis Radtke (CDU) referred to Gerhard Schröder's recent appearance in Moscow in the Tagesspiegel as a "case of moral bankruptcy" and called on the SPD to expel the former chancellor from the party. Laska agreed with him. Schröder was too ill to testify before a parliamentary inquiry but fit enough to celebrate Vladimir Putin's birthday in Moscow and accept a new supervisory board position in Russia. According to Laska, the SPD state chairpersons in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are now also demanding a new expulsion procedure. The SPD district of Upper Palatinate voted unanimously in favor of it on Saturday. Schleswig-Holstein's SPD leader Ulf Kämpfer stated that the paths of the party and Schröder had parted ways many years ago. Laska asked why Schröder was still a member of the SPD. Previous expulsion procedures had failed in 2022 and 2023. It is not only about Schröder's differing stance on Russia policy, Laska wrote, but also about his demonstrative loyalty to Putin, who has been waging a war of annihilation against Ukraine for more than four and a half years. She also pointed out that SPD foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner had praised Schröder's visit to Putin. Pierre Orthen, chairman of the SPD local club in Baden-Württemberg's Leutenbach, publicly questioned whether this was in line with the responsibilities of a member of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee. Laska wrote that Stegner had held talks with Kremlin-affiliated representatives in Baku in April 2025. It apparently concerned the future of the Petersburg Dialogue, which Schröder co-founded with Putin in 2001. In June 2026, Stegner was said to have praised Schröder's connection to Putin; now he had attended Putin's birthday party. Laska asked what these contacts had achieved for peace in Ukraine and wrote that anyone justifying such talks as efforts for peace must also be able to explain what they had accomplished. #Schröder #Ukraine #SPD (translated)
First SPD politicians are calling for the expulsion of Gerhard Schröder from the party after his visit with Vladimir Putin, as they consider his behavior unacceptable and harmful to the SPD. #Schröder #SPD #Putin (translated)
"We do not know who voted for the AfD state parliament president in secret ballot. The deputy CDU chairwoman Karin Prien has called for the expulsion of CDU members in Saxony-Anhalt who may have voted for the AfD state parliament president Tobias Rausch." #AfD #BMW #Politik (translated)
Regina Laska wrote that a photo of Gerhard Schröder in Moscow raises the question of why his trip remains without consequences for him. Schröder flew to Moscow, had himself photographed by the fireplace, and then returned to Germany, without any change to his public status. Laska pointed out that Schröder had returned his honorary citizenship before it could be revoked. An expulsion from the party had failed at the SPD. For an investigative committee, Schröder was too ill, but not for trips to Moscow and new supervisory board positions, she wrote. She also criticized that the Federal President would shake his hand at the next opportunity. In her view, the photo does not show Schröder's problem, but that society does not draw any consequences from it. As long as this remains the case, Vladimir Putin knows that Germany's support for Ukraine means a lot of money, but nothing "that hurts," Laska wrote. #Deutschland #Russland #Ukraine (translated)
Kolja Barghoorn wrote that, ironically, a party exclusion would be even more disadvantageous for the CDU, as those affected would retain their mandates and would no longer be bound to the party and its leftist politics. #CDU #Politik #Deutschland (translated)
If it turns out that CDU representatives have elected the AfD candidate as the President of the State Parliament, I expect the party to initiate an expulsion procedure against them. The head of the CDU's employee wing (CDA), Dennis Radtke, has now called for consequences if this is the case. #CDU #AfD #Landtagspräsident (translated)
After the election of the AfD politician Tobias Rausch as President of the State Parliament in Saxony-Anhalt, Dennis Radtke, head of the CDU's labor wing, demands a party exclusion procedure in the case of CDU deviants in order to set clear consequences for any votes by CDU deputies for the AfD candidate. #CDU #AfD #Landtagspräsident (translated)
_horizont_ quoted Dennis Radtke (CDU) as saying he expects a party expulsion procedure against CDU members if it turns out that they voted for the AfD candidate for the President of the State Parliament. In addition, _horizont_ stated that Radtke had voted for the chat control. https://t.co/Y18HifVvW7 #CDU #AfD #Politik (translated)
DIE ZEIT reported that the head of the CDU's social wing demanded party exclusion proceedings if CDU politicians had voted for the AfD's parliamentary president. He emphasized that the distinction from the AfD is mandatory. https://t.co/SrIN3Jh7WR #CDU #AfD #Politik (translated)
"Those who vote for a representative of a far-right party as president of the state parliament must reconcile that with their conscience." Merz had previously threatened with a party exclusion procedure if CDU party bodies decided on alliances with the AfD. #CDU #AfD #SachsenAnhalt (translated)
ULTRAKÆRL described the CDU's performance in the election in Magdeburg as a disaster and wrote that Friedrich Merz had stated that anyone who elects a member of a far-right party as state parliament president must reconcile this with their conscience. At the same time, ULTRAKÆRL noted that there was now no talk of a party exclusion. https://t.co/VUqGmiOiYh #CDU #Wahlen #Politik (translated)
The author reminded that Friedrich Merz had stated in 2021 that CDU members faced a party exclusion procedure if they worked with the AfD. Now, for the first time, an AfD politician had been elected as the president of the state parliament with votes from the CDU, he wrote. He wagered that the CDU would do nothing. #CDU #AfD #Politik #DE (translated)
Instead of publicly thinking about party expulsions, @DieLinke should take to the streets on the International Action Day for Palestine (October 10) to make it clear: We will not be slandered as antisemites by those who are emptying the concept of antisemitism! #Palästina #Antisemitismus #Solidarität (translated)
Jan van Aken befürwortet einen Parteiausschluss möglicher antisemitischer Linken-Mitglieder. „Mein Ziel ist, dass diese Menschen diese Partei verlassen. Wir stehen ganz klar an der Seite der Jüdinnen und Juden in Berlin.” #maischberger https://t.co/4dVgQsrqwS #Antisemitismus #Linke #Parteiausschluss #DE
CDU-Bürgermeister Bernd Prange hat 10.000 Euro an die AfD gespendet und angekündigt, die Partei bei der bevorstehenden Landtagswahl zu wählen, was innerhalb seiner eigenen Partei für Debatten und die Prüfung eines möglichen Parteiausschlussverfahrens geführt hat, während andere CDU-Politiker sich von dieser Unterstützung distanzieren. #CDU #AfD #SachsenAnhaltWahl
CDU-Kommunalpolitiker Bernd Prange aus Sachsen-Anhalt hat die rechtsextreme AfD mit 10.000 Euro unterstützt und zur Wahl der Partei aufgerufen, was zu heftiger Kritik innerhalb der CDU führte und die Einleitung eines Parteiausschlussverfahrens nach sich ziehen könnte. #AfD #CDU #SachsenAnhalt
Gerade in den Nachrichten: In der CDU ist man entsetzt über die Spenden von 10.000€ ihres Bürgermeisters Bernd Prange an die AfD! Der Generalsekretär droht ihm nun mit Partei-Ausschluss! So geht die CDU also mit Menschen um, die den Kurs der Zerstörung beenden wollen? Diese CDU #CDU #AfD #ParteiAusschluss #DE
Ein CDU-Ortsbürgermeister aus Sachsen-Anhalt hat der AfD 10.000 Euro gespendet und empfohlen, sie bei den bevorstehenden Landtagswahlen zu wählen, was zu Empörung innerhalb der CDU führte und ein mögliches Parteiausschlussverfahren nach sich ziehen könnte. #CDU #AfD #SachsenAnhalt
Spendet ein amtierender CDU-Ortsbürgermeister in Sachsen-Anhalt also 10.000 Euro an die AfD und erklärt dazu, dass das Verteidigen der AfD-Brandmauer bei gleichzeitigem Schielen nach Links die CDU als bürgerliche Volkspartei zerstören wird, nun droht ihm der Parteiausschluss, weil seine Partei einfach weiterhin munter am Thema vorbeidiskutiert, immer rein in die Sackgasse #CDU #AfD #Politik
