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METERYou can barely see who is approaching the CDU parliamentary group in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament to convince MPs that they should accept the transmission fee increase. The downfall of the West is conjured up when it comes to giving more money to ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio.
The stations could no longer fulfill their mandate if they were not financed “according to needs”, it is said, as if the eight billion euros that the contribution is currently pouring into the coffers of the stations could not make a program.
Not only those who know know that the increase in the monthly fee from 17.50 euros to 18.36 euros disappears, especially in the pension forecasts of the institutions. What is particularly bad, however, is that the debate over the structure and mandate of public service broadcasting, which has been waged for decades by federal state media politicians, led nowhere because broadcasters almost They made no move to participate, it ends in a political mud fight.
This can be understood in the face of the difficult situation of the Kenyan coalition in Magdeburg, for which it is a question of who is breaking the coalition agreement: the CDU if it rejects the contribution or abstains, or the SPD and the Greens if they are. agree.
The (federal) representatives of these two parties get the starkest figure when they hand over the brown card to the CDU and warn against a “turn to the right” and cooperation with the AfD. Arguments such as those put forward by the parliamentary director of the CDU parliamentary group in the Magdeburg state parliament, Markus Kurz, in an interview are ignored. Crown crisis, too high a burden for citizens and small businesses, without regard for central German concerns? Nobody wants to hear that from the right wing warnings.
It is also worrying that a broad coalition, from the German Association of Journalists to the Evangelical Church in Germany, is of the opinion that members of the state parliament could not avoid accepting the rate increase recommended by the Kef Fee Commission, otherwise they always violated the Federal Constitutional Court. He confirmed again the “state distance” of public broadcasting. The fact that this is based on state treaties negotiated by state governments and confirmed by elected representatives in state parliaments does not seem to make a difference. What kind of understanding of democracy is that?
