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Budget 2024: Merz threatens traffic lights with another constitutional complaint

Following the ruling from Karlsruhe, the federal government continues to struggle with the budget for the coming year. However, the CDU leader says that another emergency situation must not be declared now - and warns the traffic light.

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"From my point of view, there is no reason to explain the emergency situation again now," says CDU....aussiedlerbote.de
"From my point of view, there is no reason to explain the emergency situation again now," says CDU leader Friedrich Merz. Photo.aussiedlerbote.de

Budget crisis - Budget 2024: Merz threatens traffic lights with another constitutional complaint

CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz has threatened the traffic light coalition with a new constitutional complaint if the debt brake is also suspended for the 2024 budget. "In my view, there is no reason to declare an emergency again now," the CDU chairman told the German Press Agency in Berlin.

A possible motion by the coalition would of course be looked at closely. "But if it came to pass as decided at the SPD federal party conference, then we would certainly seriously consider a new lawsuit in Karlsruhe."

SPD advocates suspension of the debt brake

At the party conference at the weekend, the SPD advocated suspending the debt brake for 2024 as well. "Constitutional leeway for the budget" must be used in the interests of the population, the delegates decided. Politically, the war in Ukraine had created the conditions for an emergency situation that would allow more borrowing. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) have been struggling for days to find a solution to the budget crisis.

Merz said that he could no longer understand why the government was unable to make a decision on the 2024 budget. "This is at best a self-inflicted emergency on the part of the federal government. It has little to do with the external circumstances and a lot to do with the internal state of the federal government." Merz explained that the CDU/CSU could decide very quickly on a possible new lawsuit. "Our legal representative is on standby." In mid-November, the Federal Constitutional Court declared a reallocation of 60 billion euros in the 2021 budget null and void following a lawsuit by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. This triggered the budget crisis.

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