According to the Ickinger SPD, a new state law worsens the situation of older people.
The comrades want to open their criticism in the state parliament.
Icking – Thuringia, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Hamburg: All these federal states have a law that gives older people a say.
Bavaria should now also get one, but the Ickinger SPD is dissatisfied.
She fears the situation will deteriorate.
SPD Icking: New participation law weakens the position of seniors - local advisory board required
So far, the "participation of the seniors has worked well," says Gabriele Skiba, a member of the senior citizens' advisory board of the district and chairwoman of the SPD working group 60+ in a press release.
But the senior citizens' participation law of the state government made up of CSU and free voters thwarts the local "overall concept for senior citizens".
Instead of legally anchoring the participation of older people, a "symbolic law" is now planned, which tends to worsen the situation for older people.
Skiba refers to the planned invalidation of the Bavarian State Senior Citizens' Representation (LSVB).
On the one hand, the association would no longer finance itself through membership fees, the basic funding now comes from the Free State.
"That sounds positive at first," says Skiba.
But "from that moment on, the advisory boards are no longer independent".
Lost the right of initiative, dissolved the age limit: Ickinger SPD calls for its own senior advisory board
Furthermore, the end of the minimum age of 60 years for senior representatives is planned - even "non-seniors" should now be able to decide on the interests of the elderly.
In addition, municipalities are no longer obliged to integrate the work of senior citizens' advisory councils into local politics.
Those bodies would also lose the opportunity to submit applications to the municipal or city councils themselves.
In response to the state law, Icking's SPD, under its local chairperson Dr.
Beatrice Wagner now makes demands on the community in the message.
First of all, a separate senior citizens' advisory board is to be installed in Icking to "strengthen the right of senior citizens to have a say" on site.
In addition, the comrades want to face the Bavarian state parliament with their criticism.
And if the local SPD is already on the subject of organized representation of interests: A youth parliament and a right of initiative for nature conservation associations should complement municipal politics at the same time.
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