Linking the head of the Treasury represents a significant outlay for the public treasury at a time when the government is urging people to save because of the energy crisis and inflation.
The call for austerity that the German government has been making the country for weeks because of the energy crisis and rising inflation has bounced back like a boomerang with the expensive wedding celebrated this weekend by the finance minister, the liberal Christian Lindner, with presenter Franca Lehfeldt . The link, whose ceremony took place on Saturday on the exclusive island of Sylt, in the North Sea, has provoked much inconvenience and fierce criticism for the waste of the spouses and the significant cost it has also entailed for the treasury in concept of security.
Numerous officers deployed across the island, police vans that partially closed streets and explosives track dogs were responsible for ensuring the integrity of the guests. Among them the Chancellor, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz; his wife, the Brandenburg Minister of Education Britta Ernst; the Vice President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) and the leader of the conservative CDU formation Friedrich Merz, who arrived at the controls of his own private plane with his wife, Charlotte Merz.
In social networks and in several German newspapers, such as the ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine’ or ‘Der Spiegel’, reports of disapproval have not stopped because of wastage at an inappropriate time, which clashes with the German government’s call for austerity in the population. The controversy has reached heights because Lindner, because of the austerity measures, is defending that subsidies for the longest unemployed will be stopped.
The wedding, which was originally supposed to take place in Tuscany, Italy, has also caused a lot of inconvenience as the couple decided to get married at the Church of St. Severin, in the village of Keitum. For years, however, they had renounced their confessions and had therefore stopped paying the tax that the state collects each month.
Source: La Verdad
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