“It was not a vote for Hohmann or against Merkel - it was a vote for an open society.”

— Günter Nooke

BBC (UK Version), November 14, 2003: "CDU red-faced over 'anti-Semitism' row"
During the Hohmann crisis - voting for the expulsion, but saying the No votes represented a kick-back against "political correctness"

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