Financial crisis in Vorpommern-Rügen: Parties demand millions for memorials!

Financial crisis in Vorpommern-Rügen: Parties demand millions for memorials!

The financial situation of the Vorpommern-Rügen district is heading: At the meeting of the district council in Grimmen, a deficient budget was decided on Monday with new debts of over 60 million euros. In addition to the AfD, all political groups for this project, which is due to rising costs in areas such as social affairs, digitization and construction. The left-wing parliamentary group leader Kerstin Kassner made it clear that inflation also troubled the clubs. Nevertheless, a consistent saving does not seem to be the focus of the discussion, since additional expenses of over 560,000 euros have been approved to support sports and cultural associations, such as Ostsee-Zeitung reported.

suggestions and controversy in the district council

As part of the emotional debate about memorials, the district council voted for an increase in funds for the maintenance of war graves in the amount of almost 280,000 euros. The AfD had also called for a welcome fee of 700 euros for newborns to introduce German parents alone, which would cost one million euros. Critical voices caused resistance to this proposal, since it would only benefit certain families. While a few measures were implemented in the savings of 5.5 million euros, such as the deletion of 30 administrative offices, the effect of politics was criticized as inadequate, given a long -term forecast amount of over 300 million euros, not to mention the initial goals for sustainability and climate protection.

parallel to the financial situation, the influence of the AfD, which was successful in the state elections in Thuringia and Saxony, increases. The party stands out as a potential strongest force in Brandenburg. The AfD showed the current ZDF surveys at 17 percent nationwide. The party is pursuing a policy of hard immigration restrictions and, should it come to power, to cause radical changes in refugee policy and social benefits. An analysis by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) points out that the AfD's own voters would be the main suffering of this policy, since the savings would suffer from the savings in particular, such as ZDF reported.