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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - The three parliamentary groups of the traffic light government in Rhineland-Palatinate will present their amendments to the 2021 budget this Friday (11 a.m.)
The three parliamentary group chairmen Alexander Schweitzer (SPD), Cornelia Willius-Senzer (FDP) and Bernhard Braun (Greens) want to explain what additional accents they want to set in the spending law for the election year 2021.
The law is to be passed in December; the first deliberations in the state parliament took place in October.
Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) named education, the police and the judiciary, as well as health and labor market policy, as the priorities of the budget draft.
Due to the sharp drop in tax revenues in the corona-related economic crisis, the state wants to take out another 1.3 billion euros in loans in 2021 to finance this and other state tasks.
In the current year, two supplementary budgets have already been necessary due to the Corona crisis, with a record net borrowing of 3.5 billion euros.
The country's revenues are estimated at 18.6 billion euros in 2021 - 8.0 percent more than estimated for 2020.
In terms of total expenditure, the 2021 budget provides around 19.9 billion euros - 4.1 percent less than this year.
Both items contain federal funds that the state only channels through, such as funds for the university pact.
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The last regular budget draft before the state elections in March 2021 is not again a double budget for two years, it only extends to one year.
This will prevent the future government from being stipulated in its spending by the end of 2022.