Former Saxony-Anhalt CDU leader Holger Stahlknecht criticizes the election of Prime Minister Sven Schulze as CDU parliamentary group leader as sending the wrong signal and warns of a split in the parliamentary group and an impairment of the separation of powers, since Schulze would head both the executive and legislative branches.
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Holger Stahlknecht was Interior Minister from 2011 to 2020 and CDU state chairman in Saxony-Anhalt from 2018 to 2020. He was fired by then Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff in December 2020 and then resigned as party leader. The trigger was an interview in which he brought a CDU minority government into play in the coalition dispute over the radio license fee.
Former Saxony-Anhalt CDU leader Holger Stahlknecht has criticized the election of Prime Minister Sven Schulze as CDU parliamentary group leader. “This is a completely wrong signal,” Stahlknecht told the “Magdeburger Volksstimme”. The CDU parliamentary group is now divided. “It will impact work.”
Schulze narrowly prevailed against previous parliamentary group leader Guido Heuer in a vote on Tuesday. Stahlknecht pointed out the meaning of the separation of powers. This would be undermined “if the Prime Minister, as a representative of the executive, takes over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group at the same time, i.e. a position in the legislature”.
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