It's about the money - and suddenly the Chancellor's party gets in the wool in the Corona crisis.
In one meeting it cracks, the Chancellor and parliamentary group leader are in the criticism.
The corona debate in Germany is taking on a new level: Suddenly, the Chancellery and Prime Minister worry about the end of the strong economic aid.
The dispute over money suddenly divided the CDU, the Chancellor's party.
Angela Merkel is also criticized.
Already on Wednesday there could be another crack with the Chancellor.
Berlin / Magdeburg - After the big
Corona summit, it
would actually have been the time for demonstrative unity - but of all things, the
CDU Chancellor party
is currently grappling with violent disputes over the course of the crisis.
On Monday there was even a tangible scandal in the CDU presidium.
And the dispute could even indirectly continue on Wednesday.
Again under the eyes of
Angela Merkel
.
The Chancellor herself came under fire from within the CDU.
Corona dispute in the CDU: Bouffier goes out of his skin in session - "You obviously have no idea"
The reason for the disagreement is not about
Corona measures or restrictions
- although there are marginal arguments about hotel openings.
The Conservatives got into a fight about the
cost distribution
during the crisis.
Union parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus
plays an unusually controversial role
.
He not only attacked the summit compromise between the federal and state governments in the Bundestag, but has also been aggressively demanding more financial responsibility from the states for a few days.
According to reports, it was precisely this that
enraged Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker Bouffier
.
"I will tell you very clearly, we are no longer ready to watch your goings-on!" He allegedly declared in the CDU presidium.
"They obviously have no idea of the countries' crisis management," added Bouffier, as can be read.
Brinkhaus has
increasingly pushed
himself
into the public eye
with his
openly critical appearances
.
He is now even considered a possible candidate for party leadership.
Apparently he actually speaks from the heart of parts of his group.
Corona crisis: CDU suddenly in the financial clinic - Ziemiak gives explosive insight into the panel discussion
CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak
indicated on Monday in the
n-tv
talk “Timeline” that there could
actually be a rift between the
Union in the Bundestag and in the states
in the
financial
dispute
.
"What is certain is that he made one point clear from the group - namely that we are taking on so much debt that we have to ask how things will actually go in the next few years," said Ziemiak, referring to Brinkhaus' speech in parliament.
At the same time he added diplomatically: "But I also know what the federal states are doing."
#corona_weihnachten, #union_fuehrungsfrage, #afd_parteitag, #quotenfrau, #coronakritik_brinkhaus - those were the hashtags that I discussed with @evaschulz on #timeline.
Great format, exciting exchange!
Thank you for the invitation @mickybeisenherz!
pic.twitter.com/vWvuhQOIf1
- Paul Ziemiak (@PaulZiemiak) November 30, 2020
In the aftermath of the
CDU meeting it
became known that there was also support for Brinkhaus in the party presidium.
Following the Bouffier statement, Brinkhaus was also defended in the round, according to participants.
It is the task of the parliamentary group leader to also address things that
did not go well
with
Corona aid
.
Brinkhaus also received encouragement from
the Taxpayers' Association
and the
CDU Economic Council
.
Merkel, too, suddenly came under fire in the CDU.
The chairman of the Union parliamentary group for medium-sized businesses,
Christian von Stetten
, criticized not only the “self-image of the prime ministers” in the financing issue, but also the mode of decision-making in the
corona crisis
.
"On the one hand, I have
not found
the
Prime Minister's round with the Federal Chancellor
anywhere in the Basic Law as a decision-making body and, on the other hand, certainly not that the federal government will then largely pay for decisions made there alone," he said.
Corona: Chancellor and Prime Minister meet on Wednesday - the next scandal could follow
The topic should also
play a role
at the
next switching conference between the Prime Ministers and the Chancellor
this Wednesday.
At the traditional
autumn prime ministerial conference
, it will also be about
Corona
,
among other points
.
It could crunch tremendously.
Because
resistance to the Brinkhaus demand
came from the Union-led states of
Bavaria, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
as well as from
Thuringia
, where Bodo Ramelow is a Prime Minister of the Left Party.
“Rich countries could then afford more protection and more compensation than poor ones.
Nobody can seriously wish that, ”said
Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff
(CDU) - who this week, however, is also facing completely different problems with the debate on the radio license fee in his country.
Merkel lets Seibert arrange a need for discussion - the expert sees the debate calmly: "I think it's uninteresting"
Chancellor Angela Merkel
informed
government spokesman Steffen Seibert
that the federal, state and local governments must work together constructively in order to cope with the pandemic and its consequences in the best possible way.
"And they certainly have to keep talking about the distribution of certain costs on the route that lies ahead of us in this pandemic."
However, there are also voices who consider the whole
dispute to be negligible.
"Whether federal or state, I think this question is uninteresting," said economics professor Jens Südekum of the taz.
"Ultimately, the federal government is responsible anyway." (
Fn / dpa
)