(Deutsche Welle) He’s a longstanding Social Democrat and former board member of Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, but nowadays Thilo Sarrazin is better known as Germany’s bestselling author of a pair of books fiercely criticizing Muslim migration into Germany. The first, “Germany Abolishes Itself” (“Deutschland schafft sich ab”), topped the charts in 2010, while the second, “Hostile Takeover” (“Feindliche Übernahme”), was released this year.
The second book’s release has prompted a third attempt from within the Social Democrats to eject one of their more controversial veterans. So far, the party has not been able to meet its own strict criteria for forcing a member out.
The party’s general secretary, Lars Klingbeil, said on Monday that the SPD’s executive board had decided to formally start an expulsion process against Sarrazin based on internal SPD complaints after he ignored its calls to go voluntarily.
