German ruling party corruption scandal… Federal lawmakers take charge of Chinese mask brokerage fees

In the midst of this year’s’Super Election Year’, the German ruling party, which Prime Minister Angela Merkel is a member of, was engulfed in a corruption scandal related to a mask to quarantine a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

The controversy is controversy over the fact that the Federal Representative of the German Federal Assembly Christian Socialist Party (CSU) was accused of brokering public orders to mask manufacturers to collect large sums, and then a federal legislator of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) brokered Chinese masks and collected fees. It’s getting bigger.

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According to Germany’s Frankfurter Algemaineitong (FAZ) on the 8th (local time), German Democratic Party Congressman Nicholas Roebel received 250,000 euros (approximately 340 million won) as an order brokerage fee for a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) quarantine mask order from China. ).

He admitted to his involvement in the business on the 5th, and resigned as a federal lawmaker on that day.

Rep. Loebel said, “I will immediately drop my position as a federal legislator so that there is no further damage to our party.”

Earlier, Georg Nuthline, the head of the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament, is charged with brokering the public order for the Corona 19 mask to a manufacturer and having 660,000 euros (approximately 890 million won).

Germany’s Munich Prosecutors’ Office is investigating Senator Nusrhein for bribery.

Rep. Nuthline resigned as the house representative on the 7th, but said that he would keep the position until the end of his term in September.

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Germany has legislative elections in six out of 16 states, including the federal House election on September 26 this year. The new House of Representatives elects a new Prime Minister who will succeed Merkel in 16 years.

With only one week left for Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate legislative elections on the 14th, Suddeutchechai Tung (SZ) said that the Citizens and Knights Party coalition is burdened.

In Baden-Württemberg, the Democratic Party approval rating fell to 24%, 11 percentage points behind the Greens. In Rhineland-Palatinate, Governor Malo Dreyer of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) surpassed the CDP candidate in months.

The Social Democratic Party, which has formed a grand coalition with the Citizen-Kisadang Alliance and is running the government, has criticized sharply.

Deputy representative of the Social Democratic Party, Dirk Bizet, told Develt, “The Citizens-Kisadang alliance is facing serious corruption problems,” he said. “I am concerned that this will hurt parliamentary democracy as a whole.”

The Green Party, the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Left Party were also criticized.

“The corruption and bribery scandals within the Citizen and Knights Party coalition are showing self-service consciousness,” said Michael Keelner, the federal secretary of the Green Party.

The Liberal Democratic Party urged the establishment of a special investigation committee within the federal parliament.

“It’s not a one-off incident anymore,” said Michael Toyerer, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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