Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Hesse's SPD faction leader Günter Rudolph has accused the black-green state government of presenting a weak draft for the 2023/24 double budget. People's lives are determined by the consequences of the corona pandemic and the Ukraine war, Rudolph said on Tuesday in Wiesbaden during the budget debate in the Hessian state parliament. "But even in the face of two global crises and their devastating consequences, black and green remain unimaginative, discouraged and without a chance for a big hit." The people and companies in Hesse urgently need a government that is able to formulate a major goal and explain how this can be achieved.
The most important reason for the lethargy of the incumbent black-green state government is their disagreement, criticized the SPD parliamentary group leader. The supply of political similarities between the CDU and the Greens is clearly exhausted after nine years of cooperation.
The chairman of the DGB district of Hesse-Thuringia, Michael Rudolph, also criticized that the black-green draft was not suitable for solving the future challenges in Hesse. The country must do more for the municipalities and resolve the investment backlog, for example in the state infrastructure.
According to previous plans, the coalition's draft budget provides for adjusted expenditure totaling around 33.74 billion euros in the coming year and around 34.78 billion euros in 2024. The adjusted revenues in 2023 are expected to total around 33.74 billion euros and around 34.70 billion in the following year. Despite the high spending due to the energy crisis as a result of the Ukraine war and the ongoing effects of the corona pandemic, the state government wants to stick to the debt brake.
