Nepotism in Saxony: SPD woman takes over top post from her husband
Dresden - Flying change in the Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs. In the management staff of the Saxon Vice Prime Minister Martin Dullig (SPD), Caroline Ecke takes over the speaker post from her husband Matthias Ecke (both SPD). Because Matthias Ecke recently moved to the EU Parliament, he was on leave from his previous job in Saxony.
His wife is a former spokeswoman for the Saxony SPD and has been working for the Free State administration since January 1st. At the request of the Bild newspaper, the ministry announced that there had been a selection process among 37 applicants. "The best qualifications and professional aptitude led to the filling of this position," said a spokesman. In another case, the wife of the Social Democratic member of the state parliament Albrecht Pallas had already received a well-decorated position in the Ministry of Social Affairs in the past.
AfD: Awarding top positions to family members should be punishable
The AfD parliamentary group reacted with outrage to the personnel decision. The parliamentary group leader Jörg Urban commented on the process: "The allocation of high offices in ministries to family members is prohibited and should be punishable." His party has already presented a draft law to prevent such practices. In Saxony there is a “distinct tendency to get ministries with family networks under control”.
He stressed that it was "naïve" to assume that CDU Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer was of no use to the fact that right at the beginning of the legislative period he was able to get his wife accommodated in the Ministry of Social Affairs for what is now well over 8,000 euros a month. After all, politics is also made at the dinner table. He described the state government's personnel policy as an "outrageous waste of taxpayers' money" and announced that his party would fight against it.
Source: Junge Freiheit
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