A parliamentary member of Merkel’s party resigns from his parliamentary membership due to the gags scandal
The parliamentarian of the German Christian Democratic Party, Nicholas Löbel, has announced his resignation from his membership in Parliament after the pressure he was subjected to due to his involvement in the Coronavirus masks scandal.
“In order to spare my party more damage, I resign with immediate effect from my parliamentary membership,” Löbel announced, Monday.
Löbel and another member of the Bavarian Social Christian Party, George Nusselin, are accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of euros to help negotiate deals for Coronavirus masks.
It is reported that Lobel admitted last Friday that he participated in the masks deals, and that his company received commissions worth approximately 250 thousand euros, because it played the role of mediating in the contracts for the purchase of masks between a supplier in the state of Baden-Württemberg and two private companies in Heidelberg and Mannheim.
The scandal caused an uproar ahead of the regional elections in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate next Sunday.
The Christian coalition is trying to make sure that nothing harms its chances of winning the lead in the general elections next September.
It should be noted that the Christian coalition includes the Christian Democrats, to which Chancellor Angela Merkel is affiliated, and the Bavarian Party.
