Tim Klüssendorf: SPD General Secretary suggests not growing the food regimen – 497 euros per 30 days | EUROtoday

Are Germany’s members of the Bundestag voluntarily giving up extra money? If the SPD common secretary has his method, that’s precisely the plan. Tim Klüssendorf was quoted by “Bild” as saying: “We should definitely suspend the upcoming increase in diets.” The background to this reluctance on the a part of MPs is the quite a few austerity measures deliberate for residents.

“How are we supposed to regain credibility and trust if, on the one hand, we are putting together painful austerity packages and, on the other hand, our own diets are constantly increasing?” continued Klüssendorf. The Social Democrat then offers the reply himself: “That’s not possible. We have to hold ourselves accountable and set a good example.”

The 630 members of the German Bundestag obtain a month-to-month wage of 11,833 euros. The diets are adjusted to wage developments on July 1st yearly. In this case, this corresponds to 497 euros (4.2 %) to round 12,330 euros earlier than taxes.

The plan additionally comes from different comrades. Johannes Fechner, Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group, apparently additionally sees the wage enhance as dispensable. In view of the “economic situation”, the upcoming enhance needs to be suspended. “The economic situation is challenging for many citizens, so we MPs cannot get such high increases in our diets,” the paper quoted him as saying.

Despite these adversities, he believes that the federal government could be profitable. Miersch names, for instance, the five hundred billion euro particular fund for infrastructure and local weather neutrality, the tariff loyalty regulation and the sports activities billion for the urgently wanted modernization of sports activities amenities. This is “concrete proof that we can decide on changes that will have a positive impact on the country for decades to come.”

The corresponding regulation, as “Bild” continues, is already in preparation, and after preliminary reservations, the Union additionally appears to sign approval for it, within the individual of Secretary General Carsten Linnemann, who just lately answered the query a couple of doable suspension of the food regimen enhance on the speak present “Maischberger”: “I think that’s right.” A easy majority within the vote within the German Bundestag can be sufficient to pause the rise.

In mid-April, the Left govt board had already known as for a cap on salaries for members of the Bundestag. Specifically, the celebration had submitted a proposal in accordance with which the diets needs to be restricted to a gross quantity that corresponds to the present common wage in Germany. “Most people in Germany work very hard and a lot. What they earn on average should also be the benchmark for us in the future,” mentioned Left Party chief Jan van Aken on the time.