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Mainz / Koblenz (dpa / lrs) - Before the decision of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate in the dispute over the financial resources of the municipalities by the state, the Pirmasens Mayor Markus Zwick (CDU) is optimistic.
"I have great hope that there will be a fundamental decision for Rhineland-Palatinate about how the financial equalization will be made fair and constitutional in the future," said Zwick of the German press agency.
Like the district of Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens has filed a lawsuit against the notices on municipal financial equalization (KFA) from 2014 and 2015.
"The verdict could have a signal effect and initiate a paradigm shift," said Zwick.
Both municipalities understand their legal procedure as representative of the municipal family in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Eleven of the 20 highly indebted municipalities in Germany come from the state.
"We are of the opinion that it is constitutionally required that the federal states provide their municipalities with the means to cope with their own tasks," said Zwick.
It is also a question of how the needs of the municipalities can be better taken into account when distributing the funds.
The Constitutional Court in Koblenz will decide next Wednesday for the second time in the dispute over the municipal financial equalization (KFA).
In 2012 the judges upheld a complaint by the Neuwied district against the version of the State Financial Equalization Act at the time.
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Constitutional Court on the procedure
2012 Constitutional Court judgment
Municipal report 2020