Final spurt before the Christmas break: Two major issues are on the agenda in the Bavarian state parliament on Wednesday.
Munich (dpa / lby) – Shortly before the Christmas break, the state government will present the budget for 2023 to the state parliament on Wednesday (9:00 a.m.). Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) opens the first major debate about the 71 billion budget. Finally, the work is to be decided in spring in the state parliament.
In the afternoon, the investigative committees requested by the opposition for the second Munich S-Bahn trunk line and the Nuremberg Museum of the Future are to be set up. Most recently, the Greens, SPD and FDP had agreed on the questionnaires with the CSU and Free Voters. Bernhard Pohl (free voters/main route) and Josef Schmid (CSU/future museum) are planned to chair the committee. This means that there will be four committees of inquiry in the state parliament in the state election year – this is a record at least in the recent past.
On the one hand, it’s about the explosion in costs and the years of delays in the second Munich S-Bahn trunk line. The central question is when the state government knew about the cost increases and delays and whether and what they did about it – and why they informed the public so late. The second committee focuses on the rental agreement for the Nuremberg Future Museum, which is a branch of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The opposition suspects that tax money was wasted there and that CSU cronyism was practiced.
