Hohmann to run as independent candidate in Bundestag elections

According to a newspaper report, the disgraced member of the German Bundestag, Martin Hohmann, intends run as an independent candidate in the next parliamentary elections. At a 2003 rally in his constituency, then CDU member Hohmann made anti-Semitic statements and later refuse to retract them. He was then expelled from the parliamentary group of the opposition CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag, and later kicked out of the party. In his speech, Hohmann said that Jews could not be a called a "people of perpetrators" despite what he called the "historic truth" that leaders of bloody Communist revolution in Russia had mostly been Jewish. He then related this to the Nazi genocide of Jews and concluded that it would be wrong to call either Germans or Jews a "people of perpetrators." Hohmann has received support from right-wing elements within the CDU but is unlikely to be re-elected in his constituency without the backing of a political party.