Tweeting the news on Monday morning, Euronews Political Editor Darren McCaffrey said: Two of Angela Merkel’s MPs are resigning, following disclosures that they had personally profited from government deals to procure #coronavirus face masks All risks damaging CDU ahead of two important regional elections next Sunday in two western states, ahead of GE in September.
Nikolas Loebel, a member of Germany s lower house said on Sunday he would resign as member of Merkel s parliamentary group with immediate effect and no longer seek a new term in the lower house in federal elections scheduled for September.
Angela Merkel s MPs resigned over alleged face masks deals (Image: GETTY)
March 9, 2021
BERLIN (AP) A lawmaker with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said on Sunday he will give up his seat in Parliament and leave politics after it emerged that his company profited from deals to procure masks early in the pandemic drawing sharp criticism in an election year.
Backbench lawmaker with Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union Nikolas Loebel was blasted by members of his own party and opponents after it emerged on Friday that a company he runs earned commissions of EUR250,000 from brokering contracts to buy masks. Saying that he should have been “more sensitive”, Loebel admitted that he had made a mistake and gave up his seat on Parliament’s foreign affairs committee.
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