Former German spy chief founds new right-wing party

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Former German spy chief founds new right-wing party

Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh
Sat, February 17, 2024 at 12:12 PM EST·2 min read

BERLIN (Reuters) - A former German spy chief who was sacked after being accused of averting his eyes to the threat posed by the far-right founded a new right-wing party on Saturday, holding an inaugural party congress on a boat near Germany's old capital Bonn.

The party is the third to be founded this year in Germany, further fragmenting the political landscape and making electoral predictions tricky ahead of European parliamentary polls and votes in half the country's municipalities and three states.

The Werteunion, or Values Union, is headed by Hans-Georg Maassen, who was dismissed as head of Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) in 2018.

Maassen was forced to resign after initially questioning the authenticity of a video showing far-right extremists chasing migrants in the eastern city of Chemnitz, saying it might have been faked.

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[OnDoutside]

1. Here we go again....

I wonder where he'll get his funding from ?