noon today protested to coincide with a meeting of parliament, several thousand young people in particular on the initiative of several youth associations against the agreed reductions in youth work. On banners and speeches calling for the responsible social minister Christine Clauss (CDU) to take back the cuts. A delegation of the protesters handed Landtagspräsident Matthias Roessler and Social Affairs Christine Clauss (both CDU), a petition with more than 20,000 signatures.
This year, threatening the social Area of the state cuts in a 25 million €. As grounds for the state government tax revenue to the strong decline in the past and in the coming years. All ministries have been the beginning of the year by Finance Minister Georg Unland (CDU) are encouraged to submit proposals for individual savings.
Both before, and in the state parliament, deputies of the opposition parties supported the protests. In a joint request of the SPD and the Left, the state government was asked to refrain from drastic cutbacks at the expense of social sectors. The Greens called on the government in its own request for more transparency in the savings plans and alternatives to the cuts in social Area.
recently Andrea Fischer (CDU), had the State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs, to the Lausitzer Rundschau it spoken, that "would have failed to repair approaches in youth work to part". Germany would be the moment for 'things' pay, which would have no social value, "Fischer continued. Party colleague Michael Harig recalled in his opinion, lack of ownership by the people affected by the reductions.
(first published in ADDN - dresden alternative news)
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