German President Christian Wulff is expected to resign today with an announcement. Allegations of impropriety will likely cost Wulff not only his presidential seat also his immunity.

Berlin / NationalTurk – The German president Wulff has been subject in several scandals of impropriety over the last few months and is set to become the first head of state in the federal republic of Germany’s history to lose his seat and immunity.

Germany’s president Christian Wulff has been sitting in deep waters as he faced growing pressure from nearly all parties in German politics to resign. After prosecutors asked for his immunity to be lifted in order to investigate allegations of impropriety he is expected to resign with an announcement which will be televised in Germany.

German President Wulff to resign and lose immunity amid various allegations

The public prosecutor’s office in Hannover, Lower Saxony, where Christian Wulff was formerly state premier, declared it had asked the Bundestag lower house of parliament to lift the German president Christian Wulff’s immunity – a pre-requisite for any investigation to be opened.

The Hannover prosecutors also announced an “initial suspicion” against Wulff’s film producer friend David Grönewold, who reportedly picked up the bills for Wulff’s hotel and an upgrade during two short breaks. Wulff’s lawyers have stated he repaid the money in cash for one of the stays.

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Christian Wulff has been in his German President position for nearly two years and took over the presidential seat from Horst Köhler, who had also resigned.

Opposition Greens MP Christian Ströbele told the Tagesspiegel daily on Friday about their stance over Wulff affaire : ‘ It’s now too much, Christian Wulff must face the consequences, regardless how dire they will be ‘. He expressed it was unimaginable for Christian Wulff to remain in Presidential office during a criminal investigation gets under way.

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Wulff, 52, first landed in hot water in December when it was reported he had failed to declare a home loan at an advantageous interest rate he accepted from the wife of a tycoon friend while he was premier of Lower Saxony.

When opposition state deputies asked him whether he had business ties to the tycoon or any firms connected with him, Wulff had maintained his silence.

As other allegations , including over alleged free holidays accepted from wealthy friends, emerged almost daily in the German media about President Christian Wulff, he was forced to make a nationally televised mea culpa.

Wulff, whose role as German President is largely ceremonial but which acts as kind of moral arbiter, has faced calls for his resignation over the home loan and subsequent claims he tried to cover the story up, but has insisted he wants to stay in office.

Wulff’s presidency in Germany has been a roller coaster ride from the beginning. His election in June 2010 proved humiliating for Chancellor Merkel as members of her own coalition broke ranks and refused to vote for Wulff in Bundestag amid a strong opposition from a former East German dissident, a political outsider.

German president Christian Wulff is known to be disliked by conservatives in Germany for stating that “Islam, too, is now part of Germany without a doubt.”

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