Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has rejected speculation about a significant increase in personnel in the state administration. "There will be no 6000 additional jobs," he said on Tuesday after a cabinet meeting in Schmilka (Saxon Switzerland). There is currently a budget preparation process in which all departments state their financial requirements and personnel expectations. It has also become clear from the budgets of the last three decades that only a fraction of the announced requirements can be realized in the end.
"We are in extremely difficult financial times. The economic situation in the Federal Republic of Germany has gone into a tailspin due to what I consider to be the wrong economic policy," said Kretschmer. On the one hand, there is zero growth, on the other hand, there are new performance laws amounting to 6.8 billion euros, which are not adequately financed and, above all, are pushing the districts under water: "This will limit the financial possibilities of the Free State for its own policy-making, at least in the short term."
