Parties’ election campaign results
Lindner calls for a higher tax allowance
October 6, 2023, 11:06 p.m
14 million people in Bavaria and Hesse are called to vote for a new state parliament on Sunday. At the end of the election campaign, the top candidates also receive support from politicians from Berlin. There is scolding, promises, but also self-reflection.
FDP leader Christian Lindner is calling for the tax system to be adjusted again to the inflation rate at the turn of the year. “If on January 1st the citizen’s allowance is increased for those with whom our society shows solidarity, then on the other hand the tax system must also be adjusted for the others who pay for this solidarity with taxes,” said the Federal Finance Minister at the end of the Bavarian election campaign FDP in Munich. The FDP is committed to a higher tax-free basic amount, which would also benefit many pensioners. The FDP had to fight in the traffic light government to ensure that the tax system was adjusted to inflation, said Lindner. “A family of four that earns 55,000 euros will have to pay 800 euros less in taxes this year than last year. Now the citizen’s allowance is being increased again because the government underestimated inflation with its forecasts.”
CSU boss Markus Söder and North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst from the CDU sharply criticized the Berlin traffic light government at the end of the Bavarian state election campaign. “We have to send this traffic light into the desert in 2025,” said Söder that evening at the CSU’s official final rally in Munich. But the state elections are also an important turning point. It is important that there is “continuity and stability”. Wüst also demanded: “This rusty government traffic light belongs in the recycling yard.” CDU leader Friedrich Merz was not in Munich himself, he only addressed the several hundred guests in the Löwenbräukeller in a video message. He called for the state election to also be a vote on the federal government’s policies. Anyone standing in the voting booth on Sunday should “think again about the traffic lights in Berlin,” said Merz in his video message.
SPD leader Lars Klingbeil was self-reflective at the end of the election campaign. According to him, the traffic light government in the federal government must resolve the concerns of the people in the country more quickly in order to stop the AfD from soaring in nationwide surveys. “Yes, we have to do better and solve people’s everyday worries. We’re tackling that now,” he said at the official end of the Bavarian SPD’s election campaign in Munich, also explicitly mentioning the issue of migration. The solidarity distribution system within the European Union is crucial, but there must also be a faster deportation of those who are not allowed to stay in Germany. With regard to the election, Klingbeil emphasized that it was “not about Berlin, the traffic lights or Olaf Scholz.” The CSU and not Berlin is responsible for the fact that the energy transition is not making progress in Bavaria. Klingbeil’s party colleague Nancy Faeser, who is the SPD’s top candidate in Hesse, wanted to go on stage with Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil on Friday evening in Darmstadt.
Almost 14 million people in Bavaria and Hesse are called to vote for a new state parliament on Sunday. In the polls, the incumbents in Wiesbaden and Munich are unchallenged, i.e. Boris Rhein from the CDU and his Bavarian counterpart Markus Söder.