State Constitutional Court tilts non-transparent budget practice in Saxony-Anhalt

State Constitutional Court tilts non-transparent budget practice in Saxony-Anhalt

Magdeburg, Deutschland - On July 1, 2025, a judgment of the Saxony-Anhalt State Constitutional Court caused a sensation. The Court ruled that the state parliament's budget law was violated in the establishment of the state budget in 2024. The background is a global minor output of around 437 million euros, which was intended in the household, but was set without a clear information about the specific savings. The application, which led to this judgment, was made by the Bündnis 90/The Greens faction and was successful, while individual applications within this faction were rejected in the lack of authority, such as [sachsen-anhalt.de] (https://www.sachsen-anhalt.de/bs/pressemitteilungen?tx_tsarssinsclude_pi1%5Baction%5D=single&tx_ tsarssinclude_pi1%5BController%5D = base & tx_tsarsarsinclude_pi1%5BUID%5D = 580138 & chash = 1302e5a3efe541f1E6D01597013CC) reported.

The decision of December 14, 2023 on the 2024 budget should provide a saving of over 400 million euros by a global lesson. But the court found that this practice is not only problematic but illegal. The argument was based on the principle of budgetary clarity and truth, which states that all income and expenses must be listed transparently in the household. At this point, the state government apparently sloppy: The intended approach for the global minor expenditure was not sufficiently well-founded, since empirical values would have shown lower sums, which mdr.de underpaid.

The consequences of the judgment

The judgment of the court makes it clear that the estimation of global less expenditure is not fundamentally inadmissible. However, these must be realistically determined. The Ministry of Finance in Magdeburg reacted to this by emphasizing that the judgment had no effect on the current budget, but the reason for the judgment would be carefully examined. Kay Barthel, President of the State Audit Office, supported the decision and emphasized the need for clarity about the savings in order to increase the transparency in the household, such as [magdeburg-klickt.de] (https://www.magdburg-klickt.de/gruene- opposite-in-house-of-future-------------------- success/) reported.

Olaf Meister, Parliamentary Managing Director of the Greens, expressed that this course was necessary in court to end the non -transparency in the state budget. The currently planned gap between income and expenditure of 437 million euros is almost three percent of the overall budget and shows how much the pressure situation in Saxony-Anhalt could stimulate a rethink. Due to its relationship to the global lesson, the government must now prove transparently where it is shortening and according to which criteria these decisions are made.

an outlook on the budget discipline

The judgment has a clear message for everyone involved - a house number on paper alone is not enough. The state government must show that it has a good knack for a good housekeeping. The court made it clear that a flat -rate approach will no longer be accepted in the future; Everything must be understandable and understandable. The Greens then called for a comprehensive revision of the budget constellation, including more precise specification of savings points in order to ensure the legality and transparency of the financial policy of Saxony-Anhalt.

The coming months are crucial for the country's budgetary policy. The corresponding changes must certainly come to the table. Saxony-Anhalt faces the challenge of increasing transparency and regaining the trust of the population. So it remains to be hoped that everyone involved, from the state parliament to the executive, develops a good feeling for how to manage the money of the taxpayers sensibly and understandably.