“Will an Elephant Be Blown Up”
CSU politicians “accidentally” voted with AfD
07/08/2023, 5:35 p.m
The Union wants to build a firewall to the right edge. But the two CSU politicians Scheuer and Radwan voted for the first time in the Bundestag for an AfD motion. That happened by mistake in the parliamentary confusion, explains ex-transport minister Scheuer.
Former Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer confirmed on the sidelines of the CSU district party conference in Dingolfing, Lower Bavaria, that he had voted in favor of an AfD motion in the Bundestag’s Europe Committee last Wednesday: “I felt as if it had been a motion from us.” , said Scheuer to the Bavarian radio. There was confusion in the committee as a result of various dismissal motions. According to Scheuer, three of these applications came from the CSU. There were also applications from the AfD. However, the AfD application was an application without any content: “An elephant is being inflated. The application was only about procedural issues,” the CSU politician told BR.
Scheuer’s CSU colleague Alexander Radwan firmly rejected the suspicion of being close to the right-wing party. “My father immigrated from North Africa more than 60 years ago. To assume that I would work together with the AfD cannot be surpassed in terms of absurdity,” said Radwan in Berlin in the afternoon. “This is another attempt to use the right club to silence colleagues in the Bundestag who don’t agree with the traffic light.”
“Stand by the principle: Not with the AfD”
Radwan and Scheuer had voted in the committee for an AfD motion to remove the vote on a draft law presented at short notice from the agenda. “Der Spiegel” was the first to report on this. Radwan also explained this by assuming that the application had come from the Union. “We were the first to bring this up, after all,” he told the magazine.
The CSU MP emphasized that he fully supports the principle of the Union that there can be no cooperation with the AfD. “If the Union wanted to shake this principle, I would be the first to resist it with all means,” he said.