The SPD wants to try one more Time to escape Thilo Sarrazin’s party membership. The controversial author is also criticized in his party for a long time, especially his statements about Islam are disturbing Enjoyed. A request to voluntarily be a party to book to return, he had rejected. The new party is a process of elimination he said that he was surprised. the
The SPD Board of management wants to try again, the controversial author Thilo Sarrazin from the party to exclude. The theses Sarrazin’s were not with the principles of the SPD compatible, informed the Secretary-General Lars klingbeil. To add to the party’s “heavy damage”.
the basis for the decision was, therefore, to the report of a Commission of inquiry to Sarrazin’s recent Statements and publications. 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.
the results of The investigation, the Commission will not publish the SPD for the time being. “The report is the subject of the current proceedings and is accordingly not published,” said a party spokesperson. In addition, the obligation of confidentiality in this clause 17 applies in the context of a party, order proceedings arbitration rules. “This applies to the members of the arbitration Commission, as well as for all parties Involved and assists in the procedure,” she said.
Sarrazin responded left on the re-process of elimination. The decision of the SPD Executive Committee was “part of the intra-party power struggle for the future line of the SPD,” he says, Berlin’s daily mirror. He was not surprised by the decision of the party leadership, and therefore wait in silence, “what is the SPD-will write to the Board to me”. He will retain a lawyer and to take legal proceedings.
The Passauer Neue Presse (Tuesday), he said: “I know that I have hurt in my new book, “Hostile Takeover” is not a social-democratic principles. This also applies to my previous publications.”
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The SPD has already failed twice trying to Sarrazin from the party. The former Berlin Finance Senator and Bundesbank Board member had not received, among other things, as a support, to behave in a party-damaging. He is as an author, especially for his appeared in 2010, the controversial Bestseller “Germany creates from the” known.
In August, Sarrazin now his new book, “Hostile Takeover”, in which he represents Islam as a threat to Germany and Europe. Leading SPD politicians called on Sarrazin to leave the party. A step, but refused. He was for 45 years a member of the SPD and “I feel in the SPD, I grew up in, still in good hands,” he said in justification.
The hurdles for a party of exclusion are generally high, so that it can’t be abused, unpopular people to get rid of.