The decision as to whether the Berlin house of representatives, a Parliamentary Committee of inquiry with the circumstances of the dismissal of Hubertus Knabe, head of the Stasi victim-hohenschönhausen memorial is adjourned. The FDP group had requested the establishment of the investigation Committee and, therefore, the CDU-faction rubbed in front of herget. The reason for the postponement is likely to have been, that this had missed the necessary Quorum of one-quarter of the 160 members of the house of representatives. The CDU provided in turn. The had taken to a turbulent group meeting on Tuesday, the decision to abstain at the request of the FDP, and to want instead to an Initiative for a Committee of inquiry to start.
During the FDP parliamentary leader Sebastian Czaja justified the postponement of the CDU parliamentary group should be given the opportunity “to submit your questions and comments to the subject of investigation, so that in the result of a joint application may be made”, according to the liberals-the Deputy Stefan Förster. “The CDU has not done it for internal organizational reasons, to respond to our request,” said Forester, knowing that the question of the establishment of a Committee of inquiry into the CDU, for discussion of substance was taken care of. Foresters stressed however: “We have a common interest in the Committee.”
title of the Current hour makes for indignation
And proceeded in the debate of the AfD group applied for the Current hour under the title of “cleansing in Hohenschönhausen educate – the Committee of inquiry” to be controversial. Not least because the term “purge,” made in connection with the hohenschönhausen memorial for outrage. Daniel Wesener, Parliamentary Secretary of the Green parliamentary group, accused the AfD, so that the victims of actual cleansing denigrate the. He spoke of a specific “provocation”. Later culture Senator Klaus Lederer (Left) of the criticism and said: “I am appalled when I hear, in connection with the memorial site hohenschönhausen, the term cleansing. This is a disgrace and an unbearable transgression.“
Lederer, against the the of the FDP, requested that the investigative Committee in the first place should be addressed, seized the opportunity of a personal positioning. He criticized the FDP and the CDU would have to replace “cause and effect” by pulling the granted to sexual harassment, for which Knabes Deputy Helmuth frauendorfer and eventually boy himself had to go, in doubt. “This perpetrator-victim-reversal is unbearable,” said Lederer. He warned, with a view to protecting the interests of the women concerned. “The work of the memorial has not been by the dismissal of Knabes damaged, but through a year long culture of Wegsehens and failure in leadership,” said Lederer. He criticized the FDP and the CDU to want to be on the back of a women’s policy. “This is not just about politics and political gain,” said Lederer, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the memorial. He thanked the state Minister for Culture Monika Grütters, who is also country head of the CDU, “while all the time backed this approach”.
side-swipe against Dregger
That of all the in the ranks of the Christian Democrats, hated by the Left-Senator Lederer praised the country Manager grütter several times, may be understood as a well-calculated side-swipe at the CDU party and its Chairman, Burkard Dregger. Had to leave during the debate to ridicule them. Finally, Dregger has undergone to pressure from the group to a turnaround: a few weeks Ago, yet he refused a Committee of inquiry, he now supports the “amicable solution” to a, but of the CDU proposed Committee. After the SPD had referred to group managing Director Torsten Schneider Dregger as “group leaders”, put the Left-managing Director, Steffen Zillich. “The CDU shoots the bird,” he said and added: “to have pressed the self-destruct button and there is no reason to be happy about it.”
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Robert Kiesel
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