Brandenburg Minister of the interior Karl-Heinz Schröter (SPD) has triggered with his own, to the occupied protection of the Constitution to strengthen, a crisis in the red-red coalition with the Left. Schröter has declared on Friday that the number of Places from the protection of the Constitution independently from 93 to 120 to 1. March lifting.

The staff will mainly come from the police. The gain of the intelligence service was “unavoidable”, because the threat situation in recent years is qualitatively and quantitatively not insignificant changes, the Minister said.

Political Radicalisation to the left and right edge, Islamism, terrorism, and the increase in threats from the cyber-space challenges of the Brandenburger protection of the Constitution had to be. Schröter had demanded in the past years, several times more for the protection of the Constitution in his Ministry, as well as the CDU, was failed, but always on a coalition partner.

For the Left is the behavior Schröters unacceptable

Schröters statement was promptly placed in front of the Assembly of representatives of the left party, which is determined on the weekend of their national list for the parliamentary election in September. On Friday, the Left described the actions of the Minister as unacceptable. The Minister of Finance Christian Görke, who is also the Deputy head of government in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD), said: “I see myself faced with going it alone, the Minister of the interior. It is a clear failure to respect the budgetary principles of the Federal state of Brandenburg.“

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The plans are part of the country’s budget was adopted in December. For Changes in the course of a financial year, there is a clear set of rules, “the consent of the Ministry of Finance is required, the Consultation with the Parliament,” Görke. “An implementation of 27 Posts within the Ministry of the interior, there is a clear contradiction.”

The Left wants to wait for the evaluation of the NSU-investigation Committee

The Left refuses to date an increase of the constitutional protection. Left-Faction leader Ralf Christoffers said that the Left and the SPD in 2014, would have agreed in the coalition agreement, the evaluation of the NSU-investigation Committee to be seen, before on the future of the constitutional protection is being considered. These results are not available yet.

interim results, such as the expansion of parliamentary control, the limitation of the work of V-people, or a stronger internal audit were for a long time been the subject of discussions. “The non-coordinated decision of the Minister of the interior puts the sense of such discussions and negotiations in question – and thus also the political concerns, to come to a common solution in the coalition,” said Christoffers.

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Alexander Fröhlich

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