The link of the head of Finance has meant a significant expense for the public coffers at a time when the Government urges the population to save due to the energy crisis and inflation
The call for austerity that the German government has been making to the country for weeks due to the energy crisis and escalating inflation has returned like a boomerang due to 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 unleashed great discomfort and strong criticism for the waste of the spouses and the significant expense that it has also meant for the public treasury in concept of security.
Numerous agents deployed throughout the island, police vans that partially closed streets and explosive detection dogs were responsible for ensuring the integrity of the guests. Among them, the Federal Chancellor, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz; his wife, 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 accompanied by his wife, Charlotte Merz.
In social networks and in several German newspapers such as the ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine’ or ‘Der Spiegel’, messages of disapproval have not stopped happening due to waste at an inappropriate time and that collides with the German Government’s call for savings to the population . The controversy has reached greater heights for precisely Lindner defending, for the sake of austerity, that subsidies to the longest-term unemployed be cut.
The wedding, which was originally scheduled to take place in Tuscany, Italy, has also caused great discomfort because the couple decided to marry in the church of St. Severin, in the village of Keitum. However, for years they had renounced their confessions and, therefore, had stopped paying the tax that the State collects each month.
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