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Schwerin (dpa / mv) - Local public transport in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania received a good 38 million euros in compensation last year for missing passengers as a result of the Corona crisis.
"The amount of the disbursed funds corresponds to the amount of the sums that the transport companies had applied for," said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Transport in Schwerin, Renate Gundlach, on Thursday.
At first, 31.5 million euros came primarily from federal regionalization funds.
Almost 6.8 million euros come from the state's MV protection fund.
After the final accounting, it could be that the regionalization funds are adjusted and that money still has to flow from the MV protection fund.
The Left had criticized that only just under 20 percent of the planned national share for local public transport had flowed out of the MV protection fund.
This shows that the application is too complicated and impractical.
This is an untenable situation, said the transport policy spokeswoman for the Left Group, Mignon Schwenke.
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The Ministry of Transport contradicted this.
The left misunderstood that the public transport rescue package is not only fed from MV protection funds, but also from regionalization funds.
"Just relying on the disbursed funds from the MV protection fund does not represent the overall picture. All transport companies / public transport authorities have received their requested funds from the public transport rescue fund."
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