You'll be expelled from the party's former cascellari Schöder?

This is the third attempt. On Thursday, the SPD party's branch in Hanover discusses the demands for the former Cancellari's departure, Gerhard Schröder from the party. The commission has 17 requests from different party branches, said the head of the SPD branch for Hanover, Christoph Matterne. He doesn't expect a decision this week. The decision could be made within three weeks. With this procedure again, the outlook on the opinion is directed at the difficult relationship of the former SPD head (1994-2004) and former cadre (1998-2005) with the party.

Gerhard Schöder, who at the time of the Chancellor, has been friendly with President Putin, who had previously been under fire because of his commitment to the Russian gas concert. But after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, many party branches raised their voices and demanded the expulsion of the 78-year-old former candidate from the party.

bad “Dum” for the party?

But how is exclusion made from the party? The obstacles to this are high. The German Constitution predicts, that the party's “internal disorder” must respond to the basic democratic “principles”. A 1967 law on parties regulates their function in detail, and has great constitutional significance. This law stipulates, that expulsion from the party is carried out only in the event of serious status violations or violations of the party's basic principles, causing serious damage to this party. In fact, in Hanover, where Schröder lives and is a member of the regional branch, it is a “disciplinary procedure of the party”. The result of it, as the strongest weapon, could be exclusion. But there is also a written reproof. Basically, every party has no obligation to accept anyone, but no party can get rid of it that easily. For this, concrete behaviour must be proven at the expense of the party.

Ali Kaan Sevinc tells DW, because he is aware that this step of Schröder's expulsion is not easy, but “we want it as before”. He recalls the electronic letters that have arrived at the regional branch, and where most have clearly expressed itself on Schröder's exclusion from the party.

Jurists, on the other hand, look at such a procedure with reservations. Martin Morlock, a lawyer for party legal issues, sees it as “problem” a procedure, “which in a narrow sense has no connection with the party.” In the case of Schöder, it's about his work and his friendship with Putin. “But this is not about the party in the first place.” Morlock stresses, that not all the way one develops his life with party glasses should be seen. “A party is something other than an order of monks. ”

The former cellari itself calmly follows the procedure for his expulsion. “I am and remain Social Democrat”, he said a month ago for “magazine Spiegel” and will not change his political position. Several weeks ago Schröder indicated he would leave the energy concert monitoring board, Rosneft, and no longer wants a appointment for the Gazprom monitoring council.

At Thursday's meeting of the Hanover party branch, neither Schöder nor his lawyer or any trusted one participates. Ali Kaan Sevinc will attend. The head of the SPD branch from the Ruhr area views the party base's opinion as unchanged even after Schöder's announcement of the end of his commitment to Russian concertes. The SPD's “Verries, even the responsibility to have solidarity with the country, he has betrayed them. ”