Head of the Union of Values reports of “hate writing” in a private mailbox
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After threats – Ralf Höcker resigns from all political posts
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Ralf Höcker resigns from all his political posts and resigns as spokesman for the conservative Union of Values. Höcker cited massive hostilities and threats as the reason.
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It was the culmination of a hate campaign: Alexander Mitsch, head of the Union of Values, said he was threatened with gun violence. Markus Söder recommends the CDU and CSU to leave the values union “on the right”.
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DA chairman of the conservative Union of Values, Alexander Mitsch, has reportedly been threatened with violence. The “Union of Values” said on Wednesday that “hate letters with a hint of gun violence” had been thrown into the mailbox of his private house.
The police and state security officials assumed a serious threat from left-wing extremists. Mitsch lives in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg.
The threat of violence is the preliminary climax of a hate campaign against simple, purely voluntary members of the CDU and CSU, which has so far been unique in the history of the Federal Republic, the statement said. Just last week, the federal spokesman for the Union of Values, the Cologne lawyer Ralf Höcker, resigned from all his political office due to threats.
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“The representative of a political wing of a federal party has been threatened by strangers in the past few days,” said the Mannheim police. “He received two documents, the contents of which are politically motivated and should be related to his political activities.” The State Protection Department of Kripo Heidelberg is investigating.
The Union of Values sees itself as representing the conservative current in the Union. It is organized as an association and not an official party organization of the CDU. According to Mitsch, it has around 4,500 members. The Union of Values is currently massively criticized in the Union. It is accused of being close to the AfD.
Söder considers Union of Values to be “overestimated”
According to CSU chief Markus Söder, the Union of Values is “overestimated” in the debate about the future of the CDU and CSU in terms of content and personnel. “They don’t matter at all, I don’t know any member of a Union of Values or I would have ever seen it at a party event,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister in Munich on Wednesday when recording the ZDF program “What now, Mr. Söder?” ,
Admittedly, the Union of Values plays a role in the media “admittedly”. However, he recommends the CDU and CSU “to ignore them”. It had always been important for the CDU and CSU that they also had conservatives at home. If the line between conservative and AfD thinking is crossed, the matter is clear. Söder has been pursuing a course of clear demarcation from the AfD since 2018.
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