Status: 05/17/2022 3:19 p.m
The board of directors of the controversial Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Climate Foundation headed by ex-Prime Minister Sellering is resigning and will resign at the end of September. This will enable the foundation to be dissolved as requested by the state parliament.
The board of directors of the controversial climate foundation Mecklenburg-Vorpommern led by ex-Prime Minister Erwin Sellering is resigning. After talks with the three-person committee, Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig announced that the foundation’s board of directors would all resign at the end of September. This step is intended to enable the dissolution of the foundation desired by the state parliament.
Schwesig informed about the planned resignation.
No special session of Parliament
Yesterday, the President of the State Parliament, Birgit Hesse, rejected a special session of Parliament. The topics of the meeting requested by the red-red government coalition for today could be discussed during the regular state parliament session, which starts on Wednesday, according to the state parliament. The Greens, the CDU and the FDP had criticized the SPD/left coalition’s suggestion as superfluous. The SPD and the left only wanted to reaffirm a state parliament decision from the beginning of March, it said.
The state established the foundation in 2021. In addition to climate protection, its main purpose was to secure the completion of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea, since companies involved in the construction were threatened by US sanctions. Nord Stream 2 AG paid 20 million euros into the foundation coffers.
The state government had demanded a dissolution
After the Russian attack on Ukraine, the state government and state parliament demanded the dissolution of the foundation. Sellering defends himself against this, citing a corresponding legal opinion. However, an expert report commissioned by the state government comes to the conclusion that the dissolution of the climate foundation is possible.
According to the will of the CDU, Greens and FDP, a parliamentary committee of inquiry should also deal with the questionable business of the climate foundation. This is to be installed by the state parliament this week.