Audi boss faces calls to quit in Germany after he joined Trump on stage to unveil a $4bn US factory
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' over his appearance at a Trump campaign rally in Perry, Georgia. Olaf Lies, Lower Saxony's premier and a Volkswagen supervisory board member, says a campaign event cannot be the place for such news. Döllner hit back: 'If the American president invites you, you accept the invitation.'
The Georgia plant will create around 4,500 jobs and build 200,000 SUVs a year.
VW works council chief Daniela Cavallo said management had become a 'puppet' in Trump's 'propaganda show'.
IG Metall's Christiane Benner called Döllner's appearance 'highly embarrassing' and 'politically unacceptable'.
