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Saar CDU leader Toscani calls for the traffic light to be resigned
“The federal government is required to present a budget in accordance with the law”: Stephan Toscani. photo
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In view of the distortions surrounding budget policy, Saarland’s CDU party leader Stephan Toscani is calling on the traffic light to clear the way for new elections. CSU boss Söder speaks of a “serious state crisis”.
The Saarland CDU party leader Stephan Toscani has called on the federal government to resign. “Stand back, clear the way for new elections,” he said at a state party conference in St. Ingbert.
The traffic lights in Berlin are “the worst federal government in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,” Toscani continued. “First the completely botched heating law. Then nuclear power plants shut down in the middle of the energy crisis. And now the slap from Karlsruhe.”
The current budget crisis “caused the red light in Berlin. Intentionally, with cheap fraud, with trickery,” he said, referring to the new billion-dollar gaps in the federal government’s finances after the Federal Constitutional Court’s budget ruling.
The federal government is now required to present a budget in accordance with the law. “A budget that also secures the necessary funds for structural change in Saarland,” he said. “But pretty much the only thing they can think of so far is: abolish the debt brake.”
Söder: Federal government is “completely planless and headless”
In view of the upheaval surrounding budget policy, CSU boss Markus Söder also sees the traffic light’s ability to govern as a massive question. “The traffic light is completely planless and headless,” said Söder before a CSU delegate meeting in Nuremberg. He sees Germany in a serious national crisis. “This government has run aground,” said Söder. “Basically we have a government that is just floundering. And that’s why we now have to wait and see whether it can even regain its composure and whether it can still govern stably,” said Söder.
“Now the budget emergency is being declared. In fact, this is no different than the emergency of this government,” criticized the Bavarian Prime Minister. “This is an SOS of complete helplessness.” And everything is at the expense of the citizens. What is now needed is not just suggestions for saving money, but also a fundamental reorientation of politics, such as energy policy.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has once again announced a rapid restructuring of the federal budget after the Karlsruhe ruling. “Once the court has spoken, it’s just a matter of implementing it,” said Scholz in his speech at the Brandenburg SPD party conference in Schönefeld. And this should happen quickly.