AfD Kompakt, October 27, 2021.
The special fund financed on credit, which the [Hessen] governing
CDU and Green delegations decided on in the summer of 2021 in the sum of 12
billion euros, only thus came about because the voting rules were previously
changed: Instead of a two-thirds majority, a simple one sufficed. It now turns
out that one would have been able to do without this trick for loosening the
debt brake anchored in the Hessen Constitution. Since with the enacted special
fund was in fact enacted a shadow budget which is obviously unconstitutional. This
might not be otherwise permitted in other Federal States which have proceeded just
so.
This once again shows that the way which Bund and States
have adopted for the mitigation of the immense economic damage first originating
as a result of their own Corona policy was from the beginning a wrong way. For
instead of detouring around debt brakes so as to make possible credit-financed
Corona assistance, a more moderate and measured engagement with the Corona
pandemic would have made the current Corona assistance simply unnecessary.
It remains to hope that the corresponding signal sent out by
today’s decision of the Hessen State High Court will be understood and
implemented throughout the Bund. As far as additional constitutional petitions
[Normenkontrollklagen] should be
necessary for that, will the AfD not be intimidated.
[trans: tem]
