After Chancellor Olaf Scholz's statement on the Hamburg tax scandal, the Union faction in the Bundestag is calling for a special meeting of the finance committee.
"The doubts about the credibility of today's Chancellor and former Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz are becoming more and more massive," said deputy parliamentary group leader Mathias Middelberg on Saturday of the German Press Agency.
"The chancellor doesn't want to remember anything anymore.
At the same time, more and more evidence is emerging that suggests political influence in the Warburg case.”
Hamburg is the only federal state that wanted to make such claims statute-barred, said Middelberg.
Therefore, the question of Scholz's political responsibility also arises.
On Friday, the SPD politician Scholz again rejected any influence on the tax procedure of the Warburg Bank, which was involved in the "Cum-Ex" scandal, before the investigative committee of the Hamburg Parliament.
The core question is whether leading SPD politicians helped ensure that the bank did not initially have to reimburse capital gains tax that had been wrongly reimbursed.
Scholz had previously had to answer questions from the Finance Committee in Berlin and also made statements there.
His sometimes contradictory statements in the closed session became known this week according to a report in "Stern", just a few days before the Chancellor appeared as a witness in his hometown.