Munich (dpa / lby) – Now it’s official: There are two other investigative committees in the Bavarian state parliament, one for the second Munich S-Bahn trunk line and the other for the Nuremberg Museum of the Future. All parliamentary groups approved the corresponding motions by the Greens, SPD and FDP on Wednesday in the state parliament.
The investigative committee for the Nuremberg Museum of the Future, which is a branch of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, is supposed to scrutinize the lease for the building, among other things. The opposition suspects that tax money was wasted there and that CSU nepotism was practiced. It should also be about the role of Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), who was Bavarian Finance Minister at the time. At the Museum of the Future, “all sorts of red traffic lights were run over, and at full speed,” said Verena Osgyan, a member of the Green Party. The committee of inquiry is therefore needed as “parliament’s strongest means”. Josef Schmid (CSU) was elected chairman of the committee.
The committee on the Munich S-Bahn trunk line should, among other things, deal with the question of how long the state government knew about the cost increases and delays, whether and what they did about it and why the public was only informed late. The benefits of this route are “disproportionate to the costs, which run into the billions,” said Green MP Martin Runge. Bernhard Pohl (Free Voters) will chair this committee.
Most recently, the Greens, SPD and FDP had agreed with the CSU and Free Voters after a long tug of war on the questionnaires for the two committees. Volkmar Halbleib (SPD) criticized on Wednesday that the CSU initially wanted to prevent the catalog from asking questions that were necessary to clarify the future museum. There was also a “fight for every indent and every comma” when it came to questions about the main route, said Inge Aures (SPD). Tobias Reiß (CSU), on the other hand, emphasized that “negotiations were time-consuming, but in the end with good results”. The AfD criticized that it had been excluded from the formulation of the application for appointment and the creation of the catalog of questions.
With the two newly appointed committees, there will be a total of four investigative committees in the state parliament in the state election year – this is a record at least in the recent past. In Bavaria, one fifth of the members of the state parliament can force the establishment of a committee of inquiry.