The third relief package depends on the approval of the countries. However, the Bavarian Prime Minister is not at all impressed by the proposal from the Chancellery. The paper would have a zero value, Söder criticizes and instead presents a ten-point plan for the CSU.
CSU leader Markus Söder rejected the Federal Chancellery's draft for the Prime Ministers' Conference on Wednesday as completely inadequate. There is a "great disappointment" with him and also with other prime ministers about the draft sent to the federal states, said Söder to journalists in Munich after a board meeting of the CSU. "A sentence with an X was probably nothing, nothing at all," said Söder.
The text proposed by the Chancellery included neither the decisions of the finance ministers of the federal states nor those of the transport ministers. He also does not go into the immensely increasing costs for the issue of asylum. If it stayed that way, the present resolution would have a zero value, said Söder. "That would be a pure, stubborn continuation as it has been for weeks." Should it remain the case that the federal states should pay without being able to have a say, this cannot be approved.
Söder sharply attacked the federal government as a whole. "The government argues, but it doesn't do enough," he said. Actually, the traffic light coalition should now give people in Germany security, but they remain "in bickering among themselves". "It takes a big hit - right away, instead of ideology."
The CSU board of directors decided on a ten-point plan as its own concept. In this, the CSU demands, among other things, a cap on gas, electricity and fuel prices and the reactivation of all coal-fired power plants in Germany. According to Söder, a total of up to 16 other power plants could be reactivated. In addition, the CSU called for a rescue package for municipal utilities and for social institutions such as hospitals or care facilities and a reduction in VAT on food to seven percent.
Söder said: "We now need the maximum approach and not the slingshot or the tweezers - we have to save our country now." He believes that the steps he is requesting are also feasible with the debt brake. Söder said a lot could also be saved in other places. There are reserves, and the household can be reorganized. He does not know whether Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner from the FDP can pull this off with his red-green coalition partners.
