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Absolutely
The U-committees have fallen into disrepute. This does not only apply to the current ones about Cofag and the “red-black abuse of power”. The accusation is that these two were used for election purposes – and there is something to that.
However, previous committees that were not held during pre-election times have also received a lot of criticism. The cause of the criticism was not the topics of the U-committees or the timing, but the fact that the MPs did not feel obliged to educate but rather to party tactics.
That also applies now. A U-committee on Cofag makes sense – the problem is that the MPs are not living up to their responsibilities.
Too little time
Despite all the fundamental appreciation for U-committees: starting with two mini-U committees six months before the regular election date is obviously based less on the desire for thorough clarification than on the hope of mining election campaign material.
It is not that the Cofag-U Committee lacks substantive basis. But in a handful of days of meetings, at most a few outrageous anecdotes can be told. The awarding of billions in funding during the pandemic, which in some cases deserves clarification, cannot be adequately addressed. If this U-Committee is to make sense, it must be reconstituted after the election.
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