Senior members of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition lambasted Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder for continuing his coalition with the populist Free Voters after the party’s leader was caught up in an antisemitism scandal.
Hubert Aiwanger, Soeder’s deputy in the regional government, has been under pressure to step down after a newspaper report a week ago linked him to a pamphlet written in the late 1980s, which appeared to make light of the Holocaust. Aiwanger denied writing it while in high school. His brother subsequently claimed to have been the author.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck of the Greens and Social Democrat Interior Minister Nancy Faeser were among the first to react. Habeck, who’s also vice chancellor, called Soeder’s decision “unfortunately not a good one” and Faeser accused the Bavarian leader of damaging the nation’s international reputation.
Aiwanger, 52, told Bild newspaper that he had no recollection of behaving in that way. He called what was written in the pamphlet “truly abhorrent” and said he was “a democrat and humanitarian from the bottom of my heart.”
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