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reThe SPD is not alone in its attempt to move the CDU in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament to the far-right corner due to its rejection of the radio license fee increase. The Greens have also recognized the potential of the vote scheduled for mid-December. The CDU’s behavior, said Green Member of the State Parliament Dorothea Frederking in “New Germany”, was a “breaking of taboo” and “motivated by populists,” it was breaking up the Saxon-Anhalt coalition, which had been erected “as bulwark “against the right. The SPD member of the Bundestag Katrin Budde had previously made a similar statement. The AfD, in turn, which also rejects the higher transmission rate, plays its usual game and asks the CDU to join forces in the vote.
Michael Hanfeld
Editor responsible for online and “media” functions.
A resolution proposed by the SPD parliamentary group appears to be more constructive than getting the brown card. Asks the CDU coalition partner for approval of the highest contribution, but would combine it with an app that makes specific demands of public broadcasters – the cost-saving possibilities of the commission-appointed broadcasters should be exhausted to determine needs financial institutions (Kef) and abolish dual structures, regional structures are promoted, East German states are given greater consideration, more cultural and diverse sports programs are encouraged, and excessive salaries of directors are limited.
That sounds good, but sadly it corresponds to the mantra with which media politicians from all democratic parties have approached broadcasters for years without anything changing. As an attempt to keep the peace of the coalition between the CDU, the SPD and the Greens in Saxony-Anhalt, the appeal may seem obvious, but it has no prospect of materializing in this century.
How the left casts aside its windfall doubts
You don’t want to be in the shoes of Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff. He passed the State Treaty to increase the contribution and did not revoke it himself. He has stated that he does not appreciate the increase, but wants to prevent his parliamentary group from being offset by the AfD and the collapse of his coalition. With all of this, it is amazing how easily the left casts aside its doubts about windfall profits for public broadcasters when it matters. It rubs against the lavish salary structure of the institutions, which will not please their voters, but nothing follows from it.
Meanwhile, the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt is receiving support from a party other than the AfD for its rejection of the transmission rate increase: the Broadband Broadband Communication and Broadcasting Association (FRK) expressly requests the parliamentary group to disagree. The increased premium contributes to distorting competition in the broadband and cable market at the expense of midsize companies. The big players in this market, such as Vodafone, Unity Media and Kabel Deutschland, paid the so-called “feed rates” of ARD and ZDF, but the smaller providers did not.
The managing director of the Munich film company Tellux, Martin Choroba, is calling on the CDU parliamentary group in Magdeburg to accept the premium increase, the Catholic news agency reported. Their argument: Big projects like the play created by Halle’s “cross-media production” for the children’s channel Kika would no longer be normal without “needs-based” funding from broadcasters. This is similar to the advice of ARD president Tom Buhrow, who said that the public digital platform, which is planned to be based in Halle, will probably not come, if the transmission fee does not increase to 18.36 euros per month on the 1st. from January. .
For next week’s consultation in the state parliament media committee, ARD is now getting a trump card up its sleeve. If, on the contrary, the opinion research institute dimap asks you about the voting intentions or the attitude towards the crown measures of the federal and state governments, this time you wanted to know in a survey among 1001 representative elected voters in Saxony-Anhalt if they would agree with the increase in the transmission rate. The majority is tight: 54 percent. According to the announcement, the majority of AfD voters are against, all others are in favor: green voters 84 percent, leftist voters 66 percent, SPD voters 66 percent, and CDU voters 58 percent. This is called a fence post wink.
