A day after a Radio Interview on the subject of expropriations, the CDU rejected group chief Burkard Dregger reports that on Saturday launched popular initiative to expropriate “Deutsche Wohnen & Co” for “binding”. “This is an Interpretation that is not justified,” said Dregger on Tuesday morning, and added: “I have neither said nor even meant to be.” It is true that his party did not have to deal with the people “commit”, even if this was binding. The dispute over the wording he referred to also as a “quibble”.
Dregger was responding to a previous day by the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) has published a message. In an Interview with rbb radio station “Inforadio” he had said, in the case of a successful popular initiative, a state government with the CDU won’t be able to ignore participation”, but must execute this will.”
The transmitter is filtered from the Interview sequence to the message, Dregger think the people’s desire for “binding” and remained the following day, with this Interpretation of what is said: “‘A government in which we are involved, […] to execute this will. Again: ‘MUST have’. So much binding you can not formulate it. Since there is not really much room for interpretation,” wrote the Sender on Twitter.
An awkward Situation for Dregger, finally, the Position of the CDU was to the people’s desire and potential expropriation until then, as clearly: The Christian Democrats hold the goal of socialization is legally unconstitutional and, politically, it’s fundamentally wrong.
The housing shortage could be solely due to the construction of new homes and relieve, the reigning national Chairman Monika Grütters and their designated successor, Kai Wegner were last agreed. In addition: – binding effect of the referendum request had not yet claimed once the initiators. A draft law is not formulated in it.
Dregger, of lawyer, had responded on Monday night to the message. Later on in the day his spokesman sent a statement to the press, under the title “Dregger provides messages about expropriation right”. It says: “today’s message to a radio station, the Berlin CDU would respect the people’s desire for expropriation, and a government with the CDU-participation would consider a referendum as binding.” Dregger added: “We consider the referendum to be unconstitutional.” It should come to “Expect” to referendum and be successful, “we will handle it responsibly out of respect for the voters,” said Dregger.
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the back cover of the group got to the head of Kai Wegner, who had criticised the referendum last sharp. “Mr. Dregger has reported yesterday evening that he was misinterpreted. For the CDU it is clear that the current expropriation campaign is unconstitutional and harmful to the housing sector,” said the baupolitische spokesman of the CDU group in the Bundestag. The only candidate for the election of the CDU land Chairman on 18. May drew the focus of his own party in the expropriation debate undecided SPD and added: “From a government’s party, I expect a clear stance.”
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the group, internally the incident shake of the head triggered. A member of the Board described the process as “misleading”, criticized in addition, in the evening sent correctly position. “Just admit mistakes, end of”, the claim in the direction of Dregger. In addition, there had been on Monday evening Reportedly after party internally, “great Irritation”, after the message of the rbb had been published. On the question of how many calls he got before the correct position is written, said Dregger: “no.”
