Munich (dpa/lby) – Nothing stands in the way of the establishment of the investigative committees requested by the opposition for the second Munich S-Bahn trunk line and the Nuremberg Future Museum: Greens, SPD and FDP have agreed with the CSU and free voters on the respective catalogs of questions . Josef Schmid (CSU/Zukunftsmuseum) and Bernhard Pohl (free voters/main route) are planned to chair the committee. The two committees of inquiry are to be finally installed in the plenary session this Wednesday.
On the one hand, there is the cost explosion and the years of delay in the second Munich S-Bahn trunk line. The focus is on the question of 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.
According to new estimates by Deutsche Bahn, the second main route through Munich city center will cost around seven billion euros and should be completed by 2035. Originally, the plans had envisaged 3.85 billion euros and completion in 2028.
The second committee focuses on the rental agreement for the Museum of the Future, which is a branch of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The opposition suspects that tax money was wasted there and that CSU nepotism was practiced. Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) pushed through the project – at that time as Finance Minister – “against all rules and against all economic reason”.
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. A first such committee deals with the mask affair, a second again with the racially motivated crimes of the “National Socialist Underground” – with the mask committee this week – with Söder – wanting to complete the witness interviews. In Bavaria, one fifth of the members of the state parliament can force the establishment of a committee of inquiry.
