Does Scheuer fall over internal documents? Now Merkel too in the criticism: "Unworthy", "form of state failure"

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 27th, 4.45 p.m.:

New internal documents about the

put

under further pressure (see initial report).

Now demands are being made on

(CDU) to dismiss the minister.

The FDP chairman in the toll investigation committee,

, has asked Merkel to dismiss Scheuer from his office by Friday at the latest - if he does not resign voluntarily.

On Thursday, the CSU politician has to answer questions in the committee.

In view of the new incriminating files, it was "unbearable and unworthy" that Scheuer

had said the untruth

in the Bundestag about the

, explained Jung on Sunday at an FDP event in Ludwigsburg.

He also raised serious accusations against the Chancellor: It was "just as unworthy" and "a form of state failure" that Merkel, after Ursula von der Leyen, covered another minister by inaction - and Scheuer and

did not show their political limits .

Internal toll documents put Scheuer under pressure: Violent allegations from the FDP - "Can no longer stay in office"

Update from September 26, 12:04 p.m

.: The debacle over the

has

already caused a lot of trouble for

Federal Transport Minister

(CSU).

Recently,

again

put him

in great need of explanation.

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

now calling for

his departure.

The Bundestag member

calling for Andreas Scheuer to resign because the CSU politician is

said to have said

the

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

on Saturday.

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

Specifically, Luksic accuses the minister of not having

answered one of his questions truthfully

in a

.

"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

before signing the contract

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

"The minister has

this

" explains the FDP politician and thus lied.

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

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Scene from the time before the toll debacle: Markus Söder (left) shows Andreas Scheuer the way to the press conference.

© Lino Mirgeler / dpa

Our article from September 25th: Berlin / Munich

-

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

The

affair is much more serious

.

The by

personally Anglo wobbled

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

, Scheuer could actually

.

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

drawn by

the

.

Specifically:

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

.

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

the

.

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

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

the toll contracts only

.

Ultimately, this approach would have saved the federal government huge sums of money.

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

According to

research, something else

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

.

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

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

the

.

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

.

According to a report from

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

the

with

pressure to express himself publicly in his favor.

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

the

"necessary"

, Scheuer might have waived to attribute the

the

, 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

, patience with scouring could be almost exhausted.

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

, the

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

.

Die

reported

in September that the minister had also dragged the nationalized

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

the taxpayer

.

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

.

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

responded to a

.

First the newspapers of the

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

politician

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

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