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Kevin Kühnert attacks Markus Söder: "Germany now has no time for the whims of a CSU man"

2022-09-19T03:25:47.919Z


Kevin Kühnert has obviously had enough of the Union's resistance to the federal government's relief package. The SPD general secretary is extremely clear in the direction of CSU boss Markus Söder.


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Kevin Kuehnert (on September 5th)

Photo: Peter Kneffel / dpa

In the debate on the implementation of the new relief measures, SPD Secretary General Kevin Kühnert sharply criticized Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder.

"While the people in Germany urgently need the relief from the federal government to reach them, Markus Söder is playing political games," said Kühnert of the "Rheinische Post".

He is taking a whole relief package hostage for his private feud with the traffic light.

»This is political megalomania at the expense of millions of people in Bavaria and the whole country.

Germany has no time now for the whims of a CSU man who drank too much at the Oktoberfest.«

Söder had described the proposals for the federal government's third relief package as disappointing.

"The federal government should be honest: while the hands of the federal states are tied by the debt brake, the federal finance minister is handling gigantic sums of billions in shadow budgets," Söder told the "Augsburger Allgemeine".

He emphasized the seriousness of the situation: "We are in an economic crisis that is bigger than Corona, which is why a big solution is now needed in terms of financial policy - and not just small cutlery."

Kühnert said that of course there are financial and technical issues to be discussed in the implementation of the relief between the federal and state governments.

That is why Chancellor Olaf Scholz had long since invited to a meeting with the Prime Minister.

»What is needed now in our society is a culture of problem solving, not a culture of problem description.«

Lindner sees the states as having an obligation

Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has announced that he will stick to the debt brake.

FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai told the "Rheinische Post": "It can't be that the states always just make demands, but then duck away when it comes to implementation."

At the beginning of September, the parties in the traffic light coalition agreed on a third relief package worth 65 billion euros in view of the sharp rise in energy and living costs.

Among other things, it provides for direct payments for pensioners and students, a heating cost subsidy for housing benefit recipients and an increase in child benefit.

An electricity price brake is also planned.

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Source: spiegel

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