Audi boss Gernot Döllner faces calls to quit after joining Trump on stage while German jobs face the axe
Gernot Döllner (left) with Donald Trump. IG Metall chief Christiane Benner branded the Audi CEO's rally appearance "highly embarrassing", saying it breached the carmaker's political neutrality rules.
Left Party leader Luigi Pantisano says 'Audi CEO Gernot Döllner must go' after his appearance at Trump's rally in Perry, Georgia. VW works council chief Daniela Cavallo said staff 'must have wanted to sink into the ground in shame'. IG Metall's Christiane Benner called it 'highly embarrassing' and politically unacceptable. Parent firm Volkswagen plans up to 100,000 job cuts and four German factory closures.
Döllner hit back: 'If the American president invites you, you accept the invitation.'
The $4bn Georgia plant would build 200,000 SUVs a year and create 4,500 US jobs.
SPD's Isabel Cademartori called it 'a disgrace', citing Volkswagen's Nazi-era founding.
