According to the finance minister, the 2025 budget must be renegotiated. Lindner’s actions have angered the coalition partners. The SPD leader has harsh words.
SPD leader Saskia Esken has once again sharply criticized Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner in the dispute over the federal budget. In the morning magazine of ARD and ZDF, she accused the FDP chairman of first making the results of the reports on the 2025 budget public in the ZDF summer interview.
“He speaks of transparency, but he has not created transparency within the government, but with the public. That is indecent and it serves to promote his own profile,” said Esken. In doing so, Lindner is once again damaging the government.
SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert had previously made similar comments; he accused the Finance Minister of “self-promotion” because he published the results while Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was on vacation.
Lindner announced on Sunday that expert opinions see constitutional risks in some of the federal government’s plans, for example the idea of using the remaining 4.9 billion euros from the KfW development bank for the gas price caps for other purposes in the budget. Accordingly, the budget would have to be renegotiated.
Esken also announced this. Scholz, Lindner and Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) would discuss the matter, find a solution by August 14 and then submit the draft budget to parliament, she said.
Source: Stern
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