takes The SPD under a new attempt, the former Berlin Finance Senator Thilo Sarrazin from the party to exclude. The Board of management have decided to do this on Monday, a party planning procedure, said SPD General Secretary, Lars klingbeil. The basis for the decision, the report of a Commission of inquiry to Sarrazin’s recent Statements and publications.
The Commission had come to the conclusion, “that Sarrazin’s theses propagated with the principles of the SPD are incompatible, and the party causes serious damage,” said Klingbeil.
In the Commission, among other things, Gesine Schwan and Herta sat Däubler-Gmelin. The SPD had asked the panel to consider Sarrazin’s latest Islam-critical book and his other Actions, and a recommendation for the further handling with the party member.
Already in the summer, the SPD had called on-top-of-the Sarrazin to leave the party voluntarily. The former Bundesbank Board member Sarrazin in the SPD for a long time as hostile to Islam, is a party to the exclusion failed, however, the most recent in 2011. The Federal government-the SPD and the other applicants had withdrawn their applications for the exclusion, after Sarrazin had pledged to comply with the principles of the party.
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The hurdles for a party of exclusion are generally high, so that it can’t be abused unpopular people to get rid of. The former Ministry officials, Secretary of state, Senator and Federal bankers had said in the summer that he felt in the SPD’s “in good hands”. (AFP, dpa)