Bijan Djir-Sarai in the early start
“Complete abolition of solos would make sense”
February 5, 2024, 10:51 a.m
Against a special fund, for a complete abolition of the soli: FDP General Secretary Djir-Sarai wants to relieve the citizens instead of piling up new debts. He is also distancing himself from the SPD and the Greens when it comes to the supply chain law. You shouldn’t create a new bureaucratic monster.
FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai has rejected Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck’s proposal to set up a special fund to relieve the burden on the economy. “We want to talk about things quite openly here. These are debts. We don’t think much of that,” said Djir-Sarai in the early start of ntv. “In the current situation, taking on additional debt and trying to stimulate the economy artificially on credit would only have short-term effects and would harm us all in the long term, especially Germany as a business location,” said Djir-Sarai.
The FDP General Secretary instead supported Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s demand to completely abolish the solidarity surcharge. “This relief would also make sense. That would not be a burden on the states, but rather something that the federal government alone would ultimately have to regulate.”
From an international perspective, the general conditions in Germany are a competitive disadvantage. “We are a high-tax country. The burden on people, on businesses and on companies in Germany is extraordinarily high. Especially if we compare ourselves with other successful economic nations, which, by the way, also came out of the crisis much better than us. “
For the same reason, Djir-Sarai rejected the planned EU supply chain directive. “With the EU supply chain law, we would create a bureaucratic monster if that were to happen.” There are noble intentions behind the law, such as human rights and a value-oriented corporate policy. “All of these things are important and good, but at this point they are just theory,” said the FDP politician. At the end of the day, the bureaucracy would essentially no longer allow any form of economic activity. “Take European companies that want to invest in Africa, for example. They have such difficult conditions that they then forgo investing. Chinese companies or other companies don’t have these conditions. They invest – and we don’t.”
For Djir-Sarai, it is a foregone conclusion that the FDP will return to the Bundestag despite the currently low poll numbers. “We will, that is clearly our goal, achieve a double-digit result.” In the trend barometer from RTL and ntv, the Liberals recently came in at 3 percent. “There were often phases within an election period where in the middle of the election period the FDP was not in the polls as we would have liked,” said Djir-Sarai. He “of course” votes for the FDP – and, according to his own statement, does not assume that he is generously giving away his vote. “No, that’s not the case.”