Germany's conservative opposition moved today to expel a member of their parliamentary group for anti-Jewish remarks that embarassed the party at home and damaged Germany's reputation abroad, party sources said.
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sources told reporters that they planned to start a process to oust Mr Martin Hohmann, who until recently was an obscure backbench lawmaker, from both the parliamentary group and the party.
Mr Hohmann said in a speech in October that Jews, like Germans, could be seen as a people of "perpetrators". Widely condemned in Germany, he at first refused to apologise. CDU leaders censured him last week, but came under intense pressure to sack him.