Stendal (dpa/sa) - The city of Stendal wants more money from the state to host the Saxony-Anhalt Day 2024. The city council decided on Monday evening. It is about a surcharge of 150,000 euros, as the city confirmed on Tuesday on request. The MDR reported about it first.
Whether the black-red-yellow coalition will follow suit in the course of the current deliberations on the state budget for 2023 is open. It doesn't make sense to open demands unilaterally, said the financial policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group, Stefan Ruland, of the German Press Agency on Tuesday. You have to talk to the city about it, and corrections to the program may have to be made. "I'm very hopeful that we'll find a solution."
The other two coalition partners also want to talk about the topic. "We'll look at that," said the FDP parliamentary group's financial policy spokesman, Jörg Bernstein. Andreas Schmidt (SPD) sees it similarly. "There would certainly be financial leeway," he said. However, one must first wait for the justification of the city for the additional need. In addition, it should be discussed whether the organization of the Saxony-Anhalt Day should be placed more in the hands of the state in the future, said Schmidt.
The Saxony-Anhalt Day was supposed to take place in Stendal in July 2022. It was postponed due to the corona pandemic.
