Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer has ruled out cooperation with the Union of Values. When asked whether, as in the case of the AfD, he would rule out cooperation with the Union of Values if it came to parliament after its founding, the CDU politician said on Sunday evening on the ARD program “Report from Berlin”: “Yes, that applies “The same thing. We see what kind of people they are. They have such hatred not only for the CDU and the CSU, but also for what we call common sense: Live and let live.”
The CDU wants an open society. “What’s going on here right now? From the left side, from the right side – people everywhere are being told how they should behave, how they should live.” That is not the freedom of the Federal Republic of Germany. “We are a party that takes people as they are and makes politics based on these needs. We are not educators of the people. That is the difference to these populists.”
At the weekend, the conservative Union of Values cleared the way for the founding of the party planned by its boss Hans-Georg Maaßen. According to their spokesman, a majority of the members of the association, which previously said it was close to the CDU, voted on Saturday in Erfurt to transfer the naming rights to the Values Union to the planned party. Maaßen was given the mandate “to initiate the founding of a conservative-liberal party under this name,” explained the Union of Values.
The Union of Values explained that the party will be founded so promptly that participation in the state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg in September will be guaranteed. The CDU has been expelling the former head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Maaßen, since last year.
