Erfurt (dpa/th) - Thuringia does not have to use its financial reserves quite as much as originally planned to finance the 2023 state budget. Despite additional expenditure for municipalities or the state share for the 49-euro ticket, the state’s savings box would be spared, said the chairman of the state parliament budget committee, Volker Emde, on Friday of the German Press Agency in Erfurt. Instead of around 820 million euros, as planned by the government, 752 million euros would now be taken from the reserve.
The CDU parliamentary group in particular insisted on this, without whose votes no budgetary decision would be possible on December 22 in Parliament in Erfurt. The governing coalition of Left, SPD and Greens does not have its own majority in the state parliament. With a recommended resolution, the committee paved the way for the special session of the state parliament shortly before Christmas.
