Munich (dpa / lby) – Dispute in the state parliament investigation committee on the Nuremberg Future Museum: After the rejection of two applications for evidence, the Greens, SPD and FDP threatened to sue the Bavarian Constitutional Court. The CSU rejected the allegations.
The three opposition factions criticized Tuesday in Munich that the CSU and Free Voters are using blockade strategies to prevent the investigative committee from fully investigating the matter. Among other things, they wanted to see the state government’s correspondence on the audit of the future museum project by the Bavarian Supreme Court of Auditors – the CSU and Freie Wahler rejected this. In the next step, the state parliament plenary must now deal with the opposition’s requests for evidence. Should the majority in the plenary also reject the motions, “an organ complaint before the Bavarian Constitutional Court is open”.
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. She 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 expensive. The matter is also explosive because Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) – then Finance Minister – personally got involved in the award process in his hometown, although the responsibility should have been with the Ministry of Science.
Verena Osgyan (Greens) said about the rejection of the motion for evidence: “The central question is: What is the reason that the CSU and Free Voters are building walls so massively here?” Volkmar Halbleib (SPD) said: “Anyone who blocks legitimate requests for information obviously has a lot to hide.” It is the task and right of the opposition to inspect the files and bring the truth to light. Sebastian Körber (FDP) criticized: “CSU and Free Voters disregarded our parliamentary right of control.” If the motion is not approved in Parliament either, “we will file a lawsuit,” he announced.
The CSU countered sharply. “The accusation that something is being covered up here or that there are even files that have not been submitted is absurd,” said committee chairman Josef Schmid. According to the CSU parliamentary group, the applications for evidence rejected by the government factions do not relate to the actual investigation and are therefore unconstitutional, it said. “So far, the entire course of the investigative committee has shown that the opposition is only concerned with scandals and headlines in the election year and with investigating,” criticized Schmid.
