Former CDU general secretary Mario Czaja has urged party MPs to challenge the federal budget via an organstreitsverfahren at the Federal Constitutional Court, citing the misuse of the special infrastructure and climate fund—echoing earlier Greens criticism. Institutes like the Ifo warn funds are plugging budget holes instead of investing.
In the ongoing debate over the 500 billion euro special fund for infrastructure and climate protection—following the Greens' February announcement of a planned constitutional complaint—former CDU general secretary Mario Czaja has called on his party's MPs to file an organstreitsverfahren at the Federal Constitutional Court.
In an interview with Bild, Czaja stated: "I hope that some principled MPs from my party will now, seeing that even our own minimum goals are no longer met, seek an organstreitsverfahren at the Federal Constitutional Court." He added: "The misuse of the special fund is more dramatic than I could have ever imagined. The federal government consumes instead of investing and shirks urgent reforms. Our children and grandchildren will have to bear the consequences."
Czaja, who voted against the debt package in the previous Bundestag but lost his seat in Berlin to AfD's Gottfried Curio, was replaced as general secretary by Carsten Linnemann in 2023.
CDU MP Tilman Kuban echoed the criticism on RTL/ntv's Frühstart: "If you give politics too much money without prior reforms, it often goes in the wrong direction." Kuban had approved the package only with reservations.
The Finance Ministry has rejected allegations of misuse.
