Taxpayers Association wants to check ministries
The Taxpayers Association want to go to the theft of a company car by Health Minister Schmidt checked all ministries. "This is now the incident to ask once."
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The taxpayers' association wants to check in all the ministries that service vehicles will be required at the resort really. Federal Health Minister Ulla Schmidt had been stolen at the weekend, also privately used company cars in Spain. The managing director of the Federation of Taxpayers, Reiner Holznagel said on N24: "This is now the incident, we take the opportunity to even ask." More about the
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Holznagel added: "If the official car had not been stolen, then that would not be noticed and that is why we are now asking for views on whether the current practice is that in the holiday official. dates will be agreed. " This requires that the federal government take a position.
Growing pressure on Ulla Schmidt
This has a sequel: After the theft of their car in service in Spain Health Minister Ulla Schmidt is under pressure. Politicians and the medical profession demanded an explanation of the incident. The chairman of the Budget Committee in the Bundestag, Otto Fricke (FDP), will the Minister subpoena. "I want to know is needed for which dates Ms. Schmidt company car and driver in Alicante and why it is not possible, was that it has made the message transport options. To do this, Ms. Smith provide information on the committee," he told Bild am Sonntag ".
Merkel to respond
A "full investigation of the company car affair, the President of the Free medical profession, Martin Grauduszus. "The Minister noted that never tires on allegedly corrupt physicians, it can afford not to consider even a hint of suspicion of abuse of taxpayers' money on," he said. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel faced a challenge. You must ensure that tax money would not be issued for the luxury of a limousine service with driver in the private holiday.
official appointment on vacation?
Schmidt's defense is that they perceive in the official holiday dates sounds, once discredited, said Grauduszus. Your ministry should immediately submit a detailed statement, which performed the service appointments, the Minister in Spain while on holiday, had to "take the serious suspicion of abuse of taxpayers' money for a private holiday by Ulla Schmidt.
is also necessary to consider how serious and important such events are, or whether they only would be advanced to benefit from the company car privileges, said Grauduszus. If the minister could not provide evidence that they had to contribute important dates in Spain, an immediate withdrawal was inevitable.
Immediate withdrawal?
The green budget expert Alexander Bonde Schmidt also called on the Enlightenment. "Why does the Minister an armored limousine in Spain? We had more the impression that their trips to the 'Congress to security," he told the newspaper Saarbrücken. The Minister should admit their mistake "and not long make out." Schmidt then had to pay the costs out of pocket.
Schmidt is back and hergerudert
The sedan had been stolen Schmidt near Alicante. Thieves had broken open the room of her driver and stole the keys. Holznagel accused the SPD politician not to have immediately put all the facts on the table. "Ms. Smith has out-and hergerudert. When we have asked on Saturday, she said she does not use it privately, she has a car on the spot. Meanwhile, the ministry said, but she uses it privately and pay for it. It is a fact The car had from Berlin to Alicante, and that costs a lot of money. " To cope with back and forth, almost 5,000 kilometers.
(AP, N24)
27/07/2009 11:47
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