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SPD wants to examine agreement on electric car premiums and agricultural diesel
Dirk Wiese is deputy parliamentary group leader of the SPD. Here in the Bundestag. photo
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The SPD is not satisfied with the budget compromise made by the traffic light leaders. It is primarily about the abrupt end of the e-car purchase incentive and the tax break for agricultural diesel.
“We want to take another look here too, because this obviously represents a loss of trust for many,” said Wiese on Deutschlandfunk. It is clear: “If we now reverse something in the environmental bonus, perhaps reverse something in agricultural diesel, then it will have to be cut elsewhere. That is now the challenge we are facing.”
It is better to let the e-car bonus expire
When it came to the electric car bonus, he suggested: “I think it’s worth considering again to let it expire and give those who have already submitted the applications and who have taken this into account in their purchase decision the opportunity.”
With a view to the compromise that Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) had negotiated over weeks of struggle, the SPD parliamentary group vice-president made it clear: “The political agreement is not yet an agreement “The 2024 federal budget. Because the German Bundestag makes the budget. And that’s why we will now look at all the proposals on the way until the 2024 federal budget is finally finalized at the end of January.”