It is a story that does not want to end for the military department. In recent weeks, more and more details have emerged about the award of external consultancy contracts by the Ministry of Defense. Now, on Friday, the Bundestag will also deal with the practice in the House of Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen in a current hour.
The FDP faction as an applicant also wants to formulate questions for the minister. Whether von der Leyen attends the meeting or introduces himself with a speech is still open.
The CDU politician is under pressure to control the many consultancy contracts of her house. According to several reports from the Federal Court of Auditors, it had to admit errors because individual departments had awarded orders to external consultants in violation of the law.
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Marco Bushman
The liberals now want to have the topic treated in a current hour - topics of general current interest can be debated here.
As justification explained the FDP faction CEO Marco Buschmann SPIEGEL that the change process of the Bundeswehr require all their relatives from a lot of discipline. "Therefore, the Ministry of Defense requires a particularly exemplary administration as a motivational factor," said Bushman with regard to the Minister.
In addition, the taxpayer must be able to be sure that the additional funds required for the Bundeswehr are also managed efficiently. "You can doubt both, so the matter must be discussed and best resolved," says Buschmann.
Von der Leyen tries to be a radical enlightener
The processes in the Ministry of Defense are according to the state of the previous internal investigations by no means isolated cases. In addition to the first case, where the IT department of the Ministry concluded contracts with management consultants for about eight million euros, several task forces have found other questionable assignments in various places.
As so often in affairs in her house tried by the Leyen, itself as a radical Enlightenment. Consequently, the management level is currently working on the search for further errors in the awarding of consultant contracts so that the Minister can not be presented again by the Federal Court of Auditors.
Whether the strategy works out is currently difficult to predict. Both the Greens and the FDP are quite openly threatened with a parliamentary committee of inquiry, if von der Leyen can not produce results quickly. Meanwhile, the coalition partner SPD is losing patience with the ministries, which relies heavily on the expertise of external consultants.