Bavaria has threatened a new lawsuit against the state financial equalization.
The fact that his federal state had to pay 60 percent of the financial equalization and thus nine billion euros was unacceptable, said Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) on Wednesday at the sidelines of a closed conference of the CSU state parliamentary group in the Franconian monastery of Banz.
"We cannot accept that," said Söder.
Therefore, a lawsuit is being examined again - "in the next few months" there should be a decision.
As early as 2013, Bavaria - at that time together with Hesse - had filed a lawsuit against the state financial equalization.
In 2017, the two countries withdrew the lawsuit after negotiations.
Söder said that without the agreement at that time, Bavaria would have to pay ten billion euros and even more.
But the current amount is no longer acceptable.
"In my view, this is an attack on federalism," said Söder.
It is also not an election campaign maneuver a year before the state elections in Bavaria.
The other donor countries would also gradually begin to think about the system.
The CSU state parliamentary group unanimously nominated Söder on Wednesday as their top candidate for the state elections in a year.
The party chairman should also lead the CSU into the next legislative period, said state parliamentary group leader Thomas Kreuzer on the fringes of the closed conference.
Söder, who is currently governing with the Free Voters, himself ruled out forming a state government with the Greens in Bavaria in the future.
"Black-green is not a Bavarian model and not a Bavarian option." In Bavaria, the CSU does not want to be governed by the traffic light coalition in Berlin, to which the Greens belong.
The CSU announced that it wanted to make the teaching profession financially more attractive as a first step in terms of content for the coming legislative period.
Gradually, the A13 salary level should be introduced for all teachers, starting with middle schools and then followed by elementary schools.
More administrative staff should also be hired to relieve school heads of administrative work.