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The dispute between the Saxon-Anhalt coalition over the transmission rate in Germany threatens to finally escalate. The CDU parliamentary group now refuses to postpone the groundbreaking vote in the media committee of the state parliament for a week. This was announced by a spokeswoman for the group.
This means that the corresponding result of just a few hours from a special meeting of the CDU, the SPD and the Greens is once again off the table. The highest representatives of the parties should meet again now in the evening for a crisis meeting. There is not much time for an agreement, the media committee will meet tomorrow.
The stumbling block in the dispute over the radio license fee increase is the CDU’s position: Christian Democrats want, like the AfD, to vote against the radio license fee increase, while the Greens and the SPD are in favor. Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff, for his part, does not want a joint vote with the AfD and is in favor of the new State Media Treaty.
The media committee in the state parliament will decide on Wednesday how to address the state treaty, including an increase in contributions, it recommends to the plenary for the final meeting in mid-December.
To ultimately avoid a joint vote with the AfD, the State Chancellery and the CDU parliamentary group had recently proposed that the government withdraw the state treaty and that the state parliament not vote on it. In fact, this would also be blocked because the consent of Saxony-Anhalt is missing. The leader of the CDU parliamentary group, Siegfried Borgwardt, had also engaged in renegotiations on the amount of the contribution.
Other federal states do not want to renegotiate
Even in other federal states led by the Union, one cannot get excited about resuming negotiations. “The procedure for determining the amount of the transmission fee follows clear regulations,” said Schleswig-Holstein State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter (CDU). He asked the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament to approve the state treaty amending the media this year.
Bavaria also rejected possible renegotiations. »There is only hops or top. There will be no renegotiation from a Bavarian perspective, “said Chancellor of State Florian Herrmann (CSU) after a cabinet meeting in Munich.
Most state parliaments already approved the increase on January 1, 2021 or have signaled that they will. Saxony-Anhalt is considered the only wavering candidate. If a country does not ratify the treaty before the end of the year, it does not enter into force.
