Munich (dpa / lby) – Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has described the new committee of inquiry into the Nuremberg Future Museum as an election campaign maneuver by the opposition. “Everything was done in accordance with the law and with the full backing of the state parliament,” Söder told the “Nürnberger Nachrichten” (Saturday) and added: “This committee of inquiry is nothing more than the opposition’s election campaign because they themselves have no ideas for the future has.”
“So far I have heard little good about Nuremberg from the Green, Red and FDP MPs,” said Söder. “In Munich nobody talked about the Deutsches Museum. Only in Nuremberg. That’s very noticeable. I just think it’s a shame that some people don’t love Nuremberg so much.” Söder accused his critics of an “absurd argument”. For example, that the rent is too high because the museum is said to be on the outskirts. Anyone who does that has “really no idea about Nuremberg”. “Our citizens don’t care about the dispute, they like going to the new future museum,” added Söder.
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. The committee should also deal with the role of Söder, who was Bavarian finance minister at the time in question.
The committee was set up by the Bavarian state parliament in December, as was another committee of inquiry into the Munich S-Bahn trunk line. This means that there are a total of four investigative committees in the state parliament in the state election year – 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.
