Tuesday, November 16, 2021
At 120 km / h in the 70 km / h zone
Amthor has to hand in his driver’s license
Philipp Amthor obviously wants to think about a chauffeur. Not only for reasons of convenience, but also because the CDU politician has not negotiated a driving ban for the first time. The 29-year-old is said to have driven 50 kilometers per hour too fast.
Philipp Amthor has been convicted by the Pasewalk District Court in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for driving his car way too fast. The CDU politician has to surrender his driver’s license for a month and also pay a fine of 450 euros, as reported by Norddeutsche Rundfunk with reference to a spokesman for the local court. The case has therefore been heard in court because Amthor did not want to accept the fine. In a Tempo 70 zone, the 29-year-old is said to have been flashed at around 120 kilometers per hour last year. The judgment against the head of the CDU regional group Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the Bundestag is not yet final.
He resisted reports to the “Nordkurier” that he had “shown himself unreasonable” and “claimed not to have been the driver of the car”. Neither is true. “Of course you get annoyed when you drive too fast,” he said, adding: “Of course, I’m not claiming any special rights to drive too fast.” According to the NDR, it is not the first time that the CDU member of the Bundestag had to answer for speeding at the wheel: He is said to have received a fine and a month’s driving ban before.
However, Amthor reserved the right to appeal the judgment. “It is also not indecent to have a court review a fine. Everyone is entitled to it,” the editorial network Germany (RND) quotes him. According to him, the driving ban will only become legally binding if he would not file a permissible legal complaint. Amthor told the “Ostsee-Zeitung” whether he wanted to employ a chauffeur to avoid further offenses in the future, so that he would think about it: “There are tens of thousands of kilometers a year that I travel for the constituency.”
The 29-year-old has been in the Bundestag since 2017, when he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II with 31.2 percent of the first votes. In the election in September this year, he slipped significantly to 20.7 percent of the first votes behind the candidates from the SPD and AfD. As the top candidate on the state list, he nevertheless moved into the Bundestag again. He withdrew his candidacy for the CDU state chairmanship in the summer of 2020 because of the affair surrounding his lobbying activities for the start-up Augustus Intelligence.