German lawmaker from Merkel's conservatives quits over face mask scandal

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A lawmaker from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party said on Monday he would quit parliament immediately after receiving payment for brokering face mask procurement deals for local authorities.

The scandal risks stirring more voter disgruntlement after Germany's ruling coalition of Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and the center-left Social Democrats came under fire for a slow COVID-19 vaccination campaign.Nikolas Loebel had faced criticism on Sunday after saying he would resign from the CDU faction but keep his seat in the Bundestag lower house until a national election in September.

His resignation comes one week before regional elections in the western states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg, where Loebel's constituency is. Facing similar allegations, another conservative member of parliament, Georg Nuesslein, on Monday quit the Christian Social Union , the CDU's Bavarian sister party, according to an announcement on the CSU Twitter feed.

 

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