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Andreas Scheuer criticized for toll debacle: Violent allegations from the FDP - "Can no longer stay in office"

2020-09-26T14:03:02.024Z


The brilliant flop of the car toll has been a burden for Andreas Scheuer for a year. Now comes the next scandal report. Will Markus Söder's patience soon break?


The brilliant flop of the car toll has been a burden for Andreas Scheuer for a year.

Now comes the next scandal report.

Will Markus Söder's patience soon break?

  • Internal logs for the car toll put Andreas Scheuer (CSU) in distress.

  • The Federal Minister of Transport is said to have acted “unfairly” and crossed “red lines”.

  • Will Markus Söder soon be at the end of his patience?

    Politicians from other parties are calling for Scheuer's resignation.

Update from September 26, 12:04 p.m

.: The debacle over the

car toll

has

already caused a lot of trouble for

Federal Transport Minister

Andreas Scheuer

(CSU).

Recently,

explosive internal protocols

again

put him

in great need of explanation.

After votes from the SPD and the left, a voice from the

FDP is

now calling for

his departure.

The Bundestag member

Oliver Luksic is

calling for Andreas Scheuer to resign because the CSU politician is

said to have said

the

untruth about the conclusion of contracts

with the operators of the car toll that has since burst.

Scheuer obviously lied to parliament and the public, said the traffic expert of the

Passauer Neue Presse

on Saturday.

“The minister cannot and must no longer remain in office,” Luksic continues.

Specifically, Luksic accuses the minister of not having

answered one of his questions truthfully

in a

question time in parliament

.

"On September 25, 2019, Minister Scheuer was explicitly asked by me during Question Time whether the operators of the car toll had made the offer

to wait

until after the

ECJ ruling

before signing the contract

," he explains The operators' minutes show that such an offer was made on November 29th.

"The minister has

denied

this

several times,

" explains the FDP politician and thus lied.

Explosive internal protocols on the toll debacle: do they mean the end for Scheuer?

Our article from September 25th: Berlin / Munich

-

Andreas Scheuer

is, to put it cautiously, not one of the big winners in the Merkel IV cabinet comparatively to the petitessen.

The

car toll

affair is much more serious

.

The by

Horst Seehofer

personally Anglo wobbled

CSU showcase

shattered 2019 crash of a judgment of the European Court of Justice.

According to current reports, it has now cost almost 80 million euros.

And the actually intended operators are demanding 560 million euros in damages.

The federal government rejects this request.

Andreas Scheuer: "Unfair behavior"?

Explosive report published

Scheuer in particular is being made violent.

It has long been speculated that the CSU minister could have pushed the project through before the verdict, despite the great risks, in order to create a better position in the election campaign.

According to a report by

Spiegel

, Scheuer could actually

stumble over the affair

.

Allegedly, new discoveries have been made, "red lines"

drawn by

the

GroKo partner SPD

.

Specifically:

Internal minutes of the meeting

revealed "unfair action" by the minister on several points, writes the magazine in its current issue.

And it poses a clear question in the room: “Did the Federal Minister of Transport lied when threading the deal?” On Thursday (October 1), Scheuer is to

answer questions

before the

parliamentary committee of inquiry

.

Then sensitive questions could threaten - probably a bit more explosive than recently with Finance Minister Olaf Scholz.

Chafing under pressure: decisive mistake in car tolls?

- Accusation of lying before the Bundestag

Most important is the suspicion, discussed in the report, that

Scheuer

lied to

the

Bundestag

.

When questioned, the minister denied that there had been an offer from

Eventim boss Klaus-Peter Schulenberg

- the ticket dealer Eventim was part of a bidding consortium -

to sign

the toll contracts only

after the judgment of the ECJ

.

This approach would ultimately have saved the federal government huge sums of money.

"No, there was no such offer," said Scheuer.

According to

Spiegel

research, something else

emerges from a “memory log” of the managing director of the

toll consortium “Autoticket”

.

He noted what his employees told him about a "breakfast" with Scheuer.

According to this, the offer from the operator did exist - Scheuer rejected it because the toll "should be introduced in 2020".

The

FDP MP Oliver Luksic

had already indicated in 2019 that he had “strong indications” that there was such an offer.

CSU Minister Scheuer now over the "red line"?

SPD could pull the ripcord - Left demands exit

Scheuer might have taken financial risks in order to strengthen the CSU in the election campaign.

At the same time, however, he is said to have promised "optional services" in order

to lower

the

price of the offer

.

Such should have been written out.

Last but not least: If the presentation is correct, Scheuer would actually have said the untruth in Parliament.

That could be

the red line

for the

SPD

.

According to a report from

Die

Zeit,

traffic expert Kirsten Lühmann

said

in January: Scheuer can no longer be held in office if he can be shown to have lied to parliament or violated budgetary law.

"Anyone who plays roulette with tax money and lies to Parliament must not be a minister," said Left MP Victor Perli on Twitter on Friday.

Why is Andy #Scheuer still Minister of Transport?

Now it comes out: He probably told the untruth in the Bundestag about secret talks (car toll), according to the minutes of the bidding companies.

Anyone who plays roulette with tax money and lies to parliament is not allowed to be a minister!

https://t.co/FPi8ydWHWr

- Victor Perli MdB 🍎 (@victorperli) September 25, 2020

Car toll: "Spiegel" report suggests ministerial threat - but there is no evidence yet

Another allegation is also in the room: Allegedly, Scheuer is said to have put the

toll operators

under pressure

with a

threat

to express themselves publicly in his senses.

According to another minutes of the companies, the minister has stated that his statement on the reasons for terminating the operator's contract in the transport committee could be “one way or another”.

The interpretation of the magazine: If the companies had supported his argument that the

conclusion of

the

contract was

"necessary"

before the ECJ ruling

, Scheuer might have waived to attribute the

termination of

the

contract to "defects"

, as he did in the end from notes of one of the conflicting parties in the multi-million dollar dispute, so there is no tangible evidence.

Afraid of the end?

Anonymous source reports of dwindling patience at Söder

Nevertheless: Even with

CSU boss Markus Söder

, patience with scouring could be almost exhausted.

Should there be "even one discrepancy" in the statements of the minister, Scheuer

could no longer be a minister

, the

Spiegel

quotes

an informant who was not named, "who has known Söder for a long time."

And there are not only new allegations against Scheuer in the

toll debacle

.

Die

Welt

reported

in September that the minister had also dragged the nationalized

truck toll company Toll Collect

into the affair - with the obligation to make their paying agents available for the privately organized car toll without charging customary market prices .

According to the research, this could have

cost

the taxpayer

250 million euros

.

The step was taken without the consent of the Bundestag and arouse

suspicion of a violation of budget law

.

Car toll remains a disaster: Already costs almost 80 million euros

Meanwhile, it is also clear: the car toll has now cost the federal government 79.3 million euros.

These include 7 million euros that were incurred until September 18 this year, as the

Ministry of Transport

responded to a

Green request

.

First the newspapers of the

Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft reported

on it.

So this year alone, 5.2 million euros have been incurred for experts and court costs.

The total costs incurred since 2014 will therefore continue to increase.

In mid-June, the ministry announced a sum of 76.7 million euros.

The

green transport

politician

Stephan Kühn

judged that the car toll was "one of the most expensive pipe-wrecks of the Bavarian regional party CSU" - and Scheuers.

(

fn with material from dpa

) *

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.

Source: merkur

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