More than 100 Saxon organizations have requested longer repayment periods for the repayment of the Corona loans in an open letter to the parliamentary groups.
Otherwise there could be far-reaching cuts in the upcoming state budgets and the loss of investments, the signatories of the letter announced in Dresden on Wednesday.
Dresden - The unions have also signed.
The repayment period anchored in the Saxon constitution must be extended so that the Free State remains capable of acting, it says in the paper.
Otherwise future generations would be confronted with an enormous renovation and investment backlog.
The parliamentary groups in the state parliament should bring about an amendment to the constitution as soon as possible, which would bring a reasonable debt reduction in line with the Free State's ability to act.
Saxony had incurred debts for the first time since 2006 in the previous year.
The state parliament authorized the government to take out loans of up to six billion euros to deal with the consequences of the pandemic.
According to the legal requirements in the constitution, these loans must be repaid in just eight years.
After two grace-free years, the first tranche is due in 2023 - almost 300 million euros.
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The SPD, the Greens and the Left are in favor of increasing the repayment period to up to 30 years.
To do this, however, the constitution would have to be changed, which would require a two-thirds majority.
The CDU would like to wait for the November tax estimate, but wants to repay it as quickly as possible.
The AfD is in favor of extending the repayment to a maximum of twelve years.
The open letter on the debt brake was signed, among others, by the German Trade Union Federation, the State Children's and Youth Association, the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, the German Child Protection Association, the Saxony Workers' Welfare Association, the Regional Association for Socioculture and the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church.
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