Thuringia’s Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) does not believe in an Eastern quota for filling government offices. “I think very little of all quota debates. The real question is: Will someone in the federal government be just the showcase Ossi again? So the Eastern Commissioner who has nothing to say? ”Ramelow said on Thursday in an interview with the“ Thüringer Allgemeine ”. If you are serious, you have to settle this position in the Chancellery and give it a right of veto.
“If a structural decision is made, the Commissioner for Eastern Europe must be able to use his veto until we have an all-German tie in the distribution of institutions,” emphasized the head of government. In the last overview of the distribution of federal employees per 1000 inhabitants, the average is 2.3. In North Rhine-Westphalia, however, the value is 4.4 – and Thuringia is in last place with 0.7 – “This example shows the problem.”
According to Ramelow, the staff for the new federal government is not about adding a single representative from the East somewhere: “An East German minister won’t do anything as long as the whole house is just West German again. That is why you have to look at the level of the department and unit heads. “