Angela Merkel faces party revolt over Huawei in German 5G rollout

Leading figures in Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have defied the German chancellor by throwing their support behind a motion to make sure parliament has a say in the government’s policy on Huawei.

Several German government departments are currently locked in a debate about the extent to which the Chinese telecom giant should be allowed to install a 5G network in Germany.

Some CDU MPs had originally filed a conference motion calling on Huawei to be excluded from building the new 5G network, and though an amendment has now removed this demand, the motion still contains the insistence that the government “quickly” present a bill to parliament on the matter.

According to a report in the Bild newspaper, the amended motion, to be voted on at the party conference in Leipzig this weekend, has the support of several CDU Bundestag members, including senior figures such as former minister Norbert Röttgen and the party’s General Secretary Paul Ziemiak.

 

Via DW