> Heidelberg. The Heidelberg SPD has filed a motion for party order proceedings and expulsion of Gerhard Schröder from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. According to a press release of the SPD Heidelberg, the Social Democrats have given the SPD member Gerhard Schröder time to resign from his mandates as head of the supervisory board of Rosneft and Nord-Stream AG and to withdraw from the nomination for the supervisory board at Gazprom. Nor has he distanced himself from Russian President Vladimir Putin since then. Since there has been no corresponding reaction from the former German Chancellor to date, the Heidelberg SPD today filed an application for party expulsion with the relevant body.
> “Schröder’s role as a supervisory board member in a war-related state-owned enterprise is not compatible with basic social democratic values,” argues Sören Michelsburg, the district chairman. “We are about defending and standing up for democratic values and a world at peace. An SPD member who disregards these values and supports an autocrat’s war is no longer acceptable to us.”
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> Heidelberg. The Heidelberg SPD has filed a motion for party order proceedings and expulsion of Gerhard Schröder from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. According to a press release of the SPD Heidelberg, the Social Democrats have given the SPD member Gerhard Schröder time to resign from his mandates as head of the supervisory board of Rosneft and Nord-Stream AG and to withdraw from the nomination for the supervisory board at Gazprom. Nor has he distanced himself from Russian President Vladimir Putin since then. Since there has been no corresponding reaction from the former German Chancellor to date, the Heidelberg SPD today filed an application for party expulsion with the relevant body.
> “Schröder’s role as a supervisory board member in a war-related state-owned enterprise is not compatible with basic social democratic values,” argues Sören Michelsburg, the district chairman. “We are about defending and standing up for democratic values and a world at peace. An SPD member who disregards these values and supports an autocrat’s war is no longer acceptable to us.”