Scholz outraged by "indecent" opposition claims of his meeting with Putin
www.pravda.com.ua
Sun, 05 Jan 2025 16:40:00 +0200
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democratic Party SPD colleagues have criticised as false the statements by Roderich Kiesewetter, a politician from the opposition CDU party, alleging Scholzs intent to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin before 23 February.
Source Scholz in a comment to journalists during an event at the SPD headquarters in Berlin statements from SPD members, reported by European Pravda citing Spiegel and ZDF.
Details Scholz dismissed Kiesewetters assertion that he planned to visit Moscow or meet Putin before Germanys early parliamentary elections on 23 February as untrue.
Quote from Scholz One cannot do something like this spreading such statements ed..
It is extremely indecent. More details Scholz added that there is no evidence to support Kiesewetters claim, which he described as baseless, saying, Honest people can be outraged by such remarks.
The SPD has demanded that Kiesewetter apologize for his statement. SPD Secretary General Matthias Miersch, during the presentation of the partys political program in Berlin, urged Carsten Linnemann, Kiesewetters CDU counterpart, to ensure the claim is immediately retracted and an apology issued.
Miersch further criticised Kiesewetters remarks as a clear violation of the fair elections agreement signed before Christmas by all Bundestagrepresented parties, except for the farright and farleft factions.
Rolf Mtzenich, the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, accused the conservatives of using fabricated allegations to undermine Scholzs prudent foreign policy.
Quote from Mtzenich As the leader of the parliamentary faction, Friedrich Merz must immediately ensure that Kiesewetter retracts his false statements and publicly apologises to the Federal Chancellor.
Background On 2 January, Kiesewetter, a CDU security policy spokesperson, claimed signs of Scholz preparing for a meeting with Putin before the elections and suggested an alleged meeting between Trump and Putin in March 2025.
Kiesewetter did not provide evidence for these claims.
In November 2024, it was reported that Scholz had spoken to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin for the first time in two years.
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