Munich (dpa / lby) – After the renewed rejection of applications for evidence of the work of the state parliament investigation committee on the Nuremberg Future Museum, the SPD, Greens and FDP want to file a constitutional complaint. “Greens, SPD and FDP will draw conclusions from the rejection of the joint application for the submission of all necessary files for the future museum and take legal action,” said the three opposition factions on Tuesday evening after a controversial debate in the state parliament in Munich. It is now only a matter of time before the lawsuit will be filed with the Bavarian Constitutional Court.
In view of the state election date of October 8, time is of the essence for the opposition, because the committee of inquiry will have to stop its work at the end of the legislative period.
The two disputed applications for evidence had already caused a dispute between the opposition and the CSU and Freie Wahlen weeks ago. SPD, Greens and FDP accuse the government factions of a blockade strategy to prevent a complete investigation by the committee of inquiry. Among other things, they demanded access to the state government’s correspondence on the audit of the Future Museum project by the Bavarian Supreme Court of Auditors. The second application is aimed at the submission of the existing documents on written questions, questions to the plenum and direct requests for information from the members of the state parliament by the state government.
CSU and Free Voters reject the applications with reference to the lack of connection to the investigation order, from their point of view the applications are therefore unconstitutional. Instead of relevant enlightenment, the opposition is once again looking for the big stage of the plenary for the quick headline. The request for the documents is also “completely out of the blue”.
In view of the repeated rejections, one can only come to the conclusion that there really is something to hide in the ranks of the CSU, says Verena Osgyan (Greens). The available files already show this without a doubt, according to which Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), as Minister of Finance at the time, had far more influence on the project in his hometown than was previously known. Only the Ministry of Science is actually responsible.
Addressing the CSU and Free Voters, Osgyan emphasized whether the deputies saw themselves as the government’s control body at all or “as remote-controlled defense drones from the state chancellery,” whose main task was to “block all attempts at enlightenment from parliament and the public.”
The investigative committee should clarify whether everything was right when renting the property for the Nuremberg Future Museum – a branch of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The opposition suspects that tax money was wasted there and that CSU nepotism was practiced. Among other things, the Bavarian Supreme Court of Auditors had stated in a statement that the rental agreement for the premises in Nuremberg’s Augustinerhof was “landlord-friendly” and that the rent tended to be too high.
