In Germany, far-flung and far-flung parties are criticizing former Chancellor Olaf Skollaz’s decision to bear their own office with eight employees-at the top of their regular office as a member of the Bundestag.Parliamentary whip Stephen Brandner, for a distant option for Germany (AFD), said that he could consider the former Chancellor three as well as a former Chancellor who receives an employee of a driver. He said, “But eight employees should do for a former-Chancellor, who have not fully completed the entire term of the office, completely unclear, and there is nothing more than the money waste,” he told the dye belt newspaper.Socialist Left Party’s Christian Gake took a uniform line, arguing that the full idea of giving the former Chancellor offices to work, “they don’t need their own court for life,” he said. “Offices should be dissolved.”
Employee for a former Chancellor
Former German Chancellors and Presidents are traditionally given their offices for life after the end of their terms, on the basis that they can never retire and can never become private citizens again and are still considered responsibilities for the state.In the case of scools, the Finance Ministry has stated that the work of the former Chancellor is likely to be particularly important as Russia’s all-out war in Ukraine began during his tenure.Government spokesman Stephen Cornellius told reporters that social Democrat’s expertise would still be required, as the war in Ukraine was “still a central foreign policy and security policy.” He said that in the last federal election, Frederick Merz of Skolz’s successor and rival, Orthodox Christian Democratic Union (CDU) considered the employed staffing of the scools.
Wolf and Shrodeer Case
The eight workers of the scools are less than their predecessor Angela Merkel, when they left the post in 2021, but this is four more than the Parliamentary Budget Committee recommended in the 2019 review. The committee proposed that the former Chancellor should be allotted an office manager, two advisors, an office assistant or typist and a driver.The tradition of giving former German leaders’ offices and employees has come under the scope of increased investigation after various disputes. In 2012, Bundestag, former President Christian Wolf, spent an office with an employee of three, even though he was still investigating to accept bribe by state prosecutors. In the scam, among other things involving a filmmaker, who had allegedly paid for their holidays, Wolf’s brief tenure was abolished as a German major state, although later he was approved about any wrongdoing.Recently, in 2022, Bundestag injured the office of former Chancellor Gerhard Shrodar with a staff of five after an all-out attack in Ukraine, Russia. Although Bundestag argued that the decision was taken as the Shrodeer had no significant task to complete now, it was widely believed – and Shrodeer argued – that the decision was made due to close ties between former Chancellor’s Russian President Vladimir Putin.Shrodeer sued Bundestag on the verdict in state courts, before a federal court decided that the administrative courts had no right to rule the case in the first place. Schröder, now 81, then decided to leave the case completely.
New rules, new authority
According to Claus Herman, an administrative law expert at Dombert, a legal firm at Potsdam, the Shrodeer case was influenced. During legal wrangling, the courts established that former Chancellor and President (or really any government office holder) do not automatically make legal claims for an office and employees on state costs. They are all entitled to a pension.Nevertheless, Herman feels that the cost of financing an office is appropriate for the former Chancellor, as the former head of the state and the government are important resources for journalists and historians along with their successors.“They have networks, they have telephone numbers,” he told DW. “They can be asked for advice, and if they have an office, they are available. They do not sit at home and take care of their roses. They can be invited to help the state business, so that to support the parliamentary government – to support the parliamentary government – with ideas, with contacts, and similarly.”
