Potsdam
Brandenburg CDU state and parliamentary group leader Jan Redmann consumes 1.3 per mille while riding an electric scooter Police checked. Redmann, the top candidate CDU before the state elections in the fall, he admitted a mistake. At the same time, he announced that he wanted to remain the top candidate.
“I will bear the consequences of my mistake,” said Redmann. He had already voluntarily surrendered his driver’s license. Redmann also spoke of a transparent handling of the incident. A trial is currently underway. The CDU politician announced that he would “continue the election campaign unabated and fight for our ideas for Brandenburg.” He owes it to the CDU to get more involved.
Redmann regrets traveling after an evening with friends
According to his own statements, the state and parliamentary group leader was stopped by police on Thursday during a routine check in Potsdam on his way home from an evening with friends on an e-scooter. The officers asked him to take a breath test. The rapid test showed a breath alcohol level of 1.3 per mille.
“I am running for prime minister,” Redmann wrote in a statement. He is someone “who wants to take responsibility and can take responsibility, but also someone who is not free from mistakes and stands behind them, even if it is personally painful.” “I ask the people of Brandenburg to judge me on the basis of my political ideas and solutions for the future of the country and not on the basis of a mistake that I myself feel most sorry for.”
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