Everything is impermanent. Politicians must also be aware of this, for whom, in addition to maintaining their own power, what is important above all is what they leave behind – with which they get an entry in the history books that cannot be overlooked. With Kerstin Schreyer, the former CSU Minister of Transport, it could have been something as banal as traffic signs. After all, it was mainly thanks to Schreyer that, after years of fighting, speed limits were finally introduced on the A 995 near Unterhaching and the A 8 near Neubiberg to protect residents. Unfortunately, however, the signs have been removed again because a legal examination had shown that speed limits in these areas cannot be observed.
So that was the end of the former minister’s political legacy. Or not? A unique opportunity is just opening up for Schreyer to achieve something downright epic that will be talked about for generations to come. What does she have to do for it? Not much, just talk. Namely in the investigative committee of the state parliament on the disaster during the construction of the second S-Bahn trunk line. This epochal failure, about which they laugh out loud even in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and at Berlin Airport – and about which the Prime Minister would prefer to lay a cloak of silence.
But now an investigative committee is working on why Markus Söder has been covering up for so long that the project will be so much more expensive and longer. And that can become a serious problem for him, especially before the upcoming state elections. Someone just has to sing, i.e. talk – and blame the prime minister for at least part of the responsibility for the billion-dollar disaster.
Kerstin Schreyer, Minister of State for Housing, Construction and Transport from 2020 to 2022, was directly involved in the matter and is considered the enlightener on the matter. She could certainly tell a lot about this outrageous posse that no one wants to take credit for. But she’s holding back so far. But that could change soon. At the latest when she is summoned to the committee of inquiry. The woman from Unterhaching doesn’t really have much to lose. Under Söder, who first hired her as a minister and then (why?) fired her again, she will no longer have anything and the direct mandate in the Munich-Land Süd constituency will almost certainly bring her back. If this isn’t the time for an entry in the history books.