W. German Campaign Expenses Discussed
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter)
BONN (West Germany)
The four West German political parties represented in the Federal Parliament in Bonn this year will collect State subsidy totalling 38,000,000 Deutsche marks (about £3,500,000), or nearly twice as much as last year.
Several newspapers saw the increase as a move preparatory to the next Federal election campaign in the summer of 1965, when Professor Ludwig Erhard will seek to retain the Chancellorship inherited from Dr. Konrad Adenauer last autumn.
in the Government coalition; will collect 6,000,000 Deutsche marks.
This year’s 90 per cent increase, voted by the ruling coalition, was criticised by West German newspapers and by the Social Democrats. The independent newspaper, “Die Welt” of Hamburg, commented that the increase went “too far,” and the independent “Westdeutsche Allgemeine,” of Essen, said: “We are no longer very far from the situation in which the parties are largely financed from tax funds, while Parliamentary Deputies and party officials receive salaries and pensions like other civil servants.”
The State subsidy, to be used for financing the “political education work” of the parties, was introduced in 1959 with a total of 5,000,000 Deutsche marks (about £450,000), and was raised to 20,000,000 Deutsche marks in 1962.
This year, the four parties in the Bundestag, the Lower House of the Bonn Parliament, will each get a basic sum of 1,900,000 Deutsche marks (£173,000),. while the remainder will be distributed in propotrion to the number of Deputies of each party elected to the 521-seat House. Chancellor Erhard’s Christian Democratic Union and the opposition Social Democratic Party will each receive about 13,700,000 Deutsche marks (about £1,250,000). “Too Far”
The Christian Social Union, the autonomous Bavarian affiliate of the Christian Democratic Union, will get nearly 5,000,000 Deutsche marks, while the Free Democratic Party, the third party
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30511, 5 August 1964, Page 17
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