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The opposition accuses Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) of hiding something when dealing with the failed car toll.
There will be a special meeting of the committee of inquiry next Thursday.
This emerges from a communication from the Bundestag committee that is available to the German Press Agency.
The opposition had requested the meeting.
Scheuer had refused to work with an investigative commissioner appointed by the Bundestag investigative committee.
"A little willingness to cooperate would look good on Minister Scheuer", criticized the Left Chairman Jörg Cezanne.
"If he had put half as much energy into the educational work as into the backroom deals around the toll, there would probably be no need for special meetings."
The Union chairman in the committee, Ulrich Lange (CSU), defended Scheuer: "It is Federal Minister Scheuer's right to exercise his constitutionally guaranteed rights as a member of the Bundestag in this way." the deliberative meeting would be a regular meeting of the committee of inquiry and not a special meeting.
The cooperation was about a sighting of Scheuer's e-mail inboxes, which are available to him as a member of the Bundestag, by the investigative officer Jerzy Montag.
Monday wrote to the chairman of the committee of inquiry that he no longer saw the possibility of acting as an investigative officer.
The German model for a car toll failed in the summer of 2019 before the European Court of Justice.
The opposition accuses Scheuer, among other things, of having concluded contracts before there was legal certainty.
The planned operators are demanding 560 million euros in damages after the federal government terminated the contracts immediately after the judgment.
Scheuer rejects the allegations.
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