Söder wants to sue against state financial equalization

The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder wants to sue once morest the state financial equalization. He sees his state disadvantaged.

Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder has announced that he intends to file a lawsuit once morest the state financial equalization in the first half of the year. “It’s just unfair and unfair,” said the CSU politician to “Bild am Sonntag”. A pain limit had been reached. “We show solidarity, but not naively.”

Last year, Bavaria bore the largest burden in the state financial equalization with a total of 9.9 billion euros. A total of 18.5 billion euros had been redistributed between the 16 federal states. “We don’t want to abolish the state financial equalization, but reform it and relieve the Bavarian taxpayers,” announced Söder.

Already filed a lawsuit

He also complained that the federal government had no heart for the south. “It’s noticeable everywhere: Funding is being cut and projects are being deliberately canceled. That’s why we have to do everything ourselves.”

In 2013, Bavaria – together with Hesse – had already filed a lawsuit once morest the state financial equalization system at the time. The two states then withdrew their lawsuit in 2017 following the financial relations between the federal and state governments had been reorganized. The system is now called financial power equalization. It serves the goal enshrined in the Basic Law of creating equal living conditions in Germany.