Nicholas Loebel, German Democratic Congressman. Capture of the website of the German Federal Parliament
The ruling party of Germany, which is facing an important election for the successor of Prime Minister Angela Merkel this year, was engulfed in a so-called’mask scandal’. It is revealed that the affiliated member of the lawmaker has obtained an unfair advantage of hundreds of millions of dollars through a contract to purchase a mask to prevent new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
According to Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Belle (DW) on the 8th (local time), federal lawmaker Nicholas Loebel of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) is accused of receiving 250,000 euros (about 340 million won) as a commission for ordering a Chinese-made Corona 19 quarantine mask. Are receiving. After acknowledging that he was involved in the business, he resigned on the same day, saying, “I will drop my position as a federal legislator in order not to damage the party any more.”
The’mask scandal’ that shook the ruling party began with the Christian Socialist Party (CSU), a coalition partner of Prime Minister Merkel. Georg Nusline, an internal representative of the Christian Socialist Party, is being investigated by the Prosecutors’ Office in Munich, Germany, on charges of brokering the public order for Corona 19 masks to a manufacturer and taking 660,000 euros (approximately 890 million won). Earlier, Rep. Nuthline resigned as the internal representative on the 7th, but the parliamentary position announced that he would keep his term of office in September.
This scandal is a heavy burden on the ruling party, which is about six months ahead of an important election. Germany is set to decide a successor to Prime Minister Merkel in 16 years through an election to the House of Representatives on September 26 this year. The Social Democratic Party, which has formed a grand coalition with the Citizens-Kisadang Alliance and runs the government, expressed concern that “the serious corruption faced by the Citizens-Kisadang Alliance will hurt the entire parliamentary democracy.”
The local election in Baden-Württemberg, which is held on the 14th, is also a problem. This is because it belongs to the district of Congressman Loebel (Mannheim), which expressed his intention to resign. Sut deutsche Chaitung (SZ) said, “In an election with only one week left, (this scandal) is putting a burden on the Citizens and Knights Party Alliance.” In Baden-Württemberg, the Democratic Party approval rating fell to 24%, 11 percentage points behind the Greens.
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