Werner Gatzer had suspected months ago that he would one day be the one his employer, Christian Lindner, would hold responsible for all of the traffic light coalition’s budget policy mistakes. At that time, a lengthy article appeared in a business magazine in which the government’s financial behavior was critically examined and, above all, the drastic increase in interest expenditure in the federal budget was lamented at length: the “witchy budget state secretary” Gatzer was at the end of his “art of illusion” and it was all right According to the tenor of the story, it is only a matter of time before Lindner separates from the top official. It happened this Friday: the man from the FDP put the man from the SPD into temporary retirement.
Federal budget: Why Lindner fires his State Secretary – Politics
