AfD Kompakt, June 21, 2023.
The proceeding in Karlsruhe for the 2021 second
supplementary budget is of utmost importance for the future of the debt brake.
The Constitutional Court has in hand the presumably last chance to save the
debt brake, after this in the last years was systematically circumvented.
Especially the trick of parking credit authorizations in reserve in whichever
special fund presents a striking violation against the per annum principle and
leads to that the debt brake idles throughout the year. The Court is requested
to end this practice. The Federal government at this point in time should not
budget this 60 billion.
And if the AfD delegation does substantially support the
Union’s complaint for the 2021 second supplementary budget, the degree of hypocrisy
which the Union manifests in this connection is not to be overlooked. The
formation of credit-financed reserves and the alienation of Corona emergency
funds obviously violate fundamental, normative fiscal principles, yet the
Union-led coalition took in hand exactly these same maneuvers for the 2020
second supplementary budget as well as in the 2021 budget. At that time, the AfD
delegation, as the only delegation, attempted to stop these proceedings by means
of a normative control procedure (Drucksachen
19/22926, 19/26549). At the time, no Member of the other delegations wanted
to join in these motions. It remains to hope that the Union’s intercession for
the debt brake also still has standing if it ever again should arrive at
responsibility for the government.
[trans: tem]
