Two of the three opposition parties in the Thuringian state parliament have attacked the draft budget of the red-red-green state government.
“This budget, as it is, is not subject to approval!” Shouted Thuringia's CDU parliamentary group leader Mario Voigt in the budget debate on Friday in the Thuringian state parliament.
The negotiations for the 2022 budget are considered extremely complicated because the coalition factions of the Left, SPD and Greens do not have a combined majority in parliament.
Erfurt - To decide on the budget, you need at least four votes from the ranks of the CDU or FDP.
A speech by an FDP representative was still awaited.
Voigt accused red-red-green of appreciating people in rural areas less than people in cities.
“They give people different starting conditions,” said Voigt.
In this context, he called for “more fairness”: “There must be an honest reform of the municipal financial equalization system,” said Voigt.
He referred to his faction as “the local authority of this government”.
Voigt had already emphasized in advance that the CDU could only envisage approval - if at all - if the municipalities were adequately financed.
The CDU parliamentary group leader criticized Finance Minister Heike Taubert (SPD) for the fact that the state government only presented the budget draft in October and not in September.
You don't want to be rushed, Voigt made clear.
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AfD parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke accused Taubert of building “castles in the air”.
Many millions for planned investments have not been spent in the past.
There is an investment backlog - for example in road construction and in castles and gardens.
It is a "bad budget" that Red-Red-Green presented.
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