Lechner: Red-Greens a "death of opportunity for Lower Saxony"

Budget debate - Lechner: Red-Greens a "death of opportunity for Lower Saxony"

Lower Saxony's opposition leader Sebastian Lechner has accused the red-green state government of lacking the will to shape the state. The SPD and Greens were not exploiting the state's potential and were "a death of opportunity for Lower Saxony", said the CDU parliamentary group leader in the state parliament on Tuesday. Lechner criticized that economic aid was hardly being used, that the state had created too few new places to accommodate refugees and that education policy was at a standstill. "Stop describing problems. You must finally do something," said Lechner in the direction of Education Minister Julia Willie Hamburg (Greens).

The CDU politician also took aim at the state housing association, which the cabinet had decided to establish on January 1 on Monday. The number of apartments to be created by this company was so small that he had to look for them. According to the ministry, the company will be given 100 million euros in start-up capital to build up a portfolio of around 1600 state-owned apartments. The number of social housing units in the state had recently fallen drastically.

After Lechner's speech,SPD parliamentary party leader Grant Hendrik Tonne accused him of having put forward virtually no proposals of his own. The background to the debate was the budget deliberations for 2024.

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1. Despite the Budget debate, the SPD parliamentary party leader Grant Hendrik Tonne criticized Sebastian Lechner for not proposing any solutions of his own.
2. The budget deliberations for 2024 served as the backdrop for the intense debate between Lechner and the SPD.
3. Sebastian Lechner, the opposition leader in Lower Saxony's State parliament, called the Red-Green state government's approach a "death of opportunity for Lower Saxony".
4. The CDU politician lamented the lack of economic aid utilization, inadequate refugee accommodations, and stagnant education policy in his critique of the SPD and Greens.
5. Education Minister Julia Willie, a Hamburg politician with the Greens, was directly addressed by Lechner, who urged her to take action rather than merely describing problems.
6. Lechner also criticized the state housing association, which was established on January 1, stating that the number of apartments it would build was insufficient.
7. The Red-Green coalition had faced criticism from the CDU and other opposition parties, such as the SPD and the CDU in Hanover's State parliament, for its budgetary decisions and policies.

Source: www.stern.de