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Legal does not mean legitimate

parties need money to fulfill their tasks in the service of democracy. The financial transactions of the Free voters give but a fatal impression. comment by U

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Legal does not mean legitimate

parties need money to fulfill their tasks in the service of democracy. The financial transactions of the Free voters give but a fatal impression.

comment by Uwe Ritzer

On Saturday at the CSU party Congress in the Small Olympic hall: In the Foyer, the stalls of sponsors and lobbyists jostle, from the peasant Association up to Bavarian metal employers. Inside, in the hall of the Prime Minister and party leader Markus Söder puts a flaming commitment to the auto industry. And he would have talked longer, he would have thought of it a little to the agricultural policy, which would have warmed the hearts of the builders Association of lobbyists. Policy is for sale?

certainly not with a booth at the conference advertising. Large party donations from corporations, lobbying organizations, or rich people with very own interests, however, leave a the sinking feeling that here, at least, dependencies may arise, that have an impact on political decisions. On the other hand, parties need money, and somewhere it must.

the contributions of The members and the duties of the mandate-holders are Far from sufficient to keep parties alive, to Finance their activities to political opinion formation and election campaigns. Both, however, political parties and election campaigns, is one of indispensable to democracy. And democracy, there is not a zero-tariff populists want to suggest.

The Free voters bettors in this context, for years, against the party donations from business lobbyists. You would prohibit this with someone and would prefer that the state would assist the parties stronger. This proposal is not worthy of discussion, it does not justify, as the Free voters ' self-trick for years to come (lack of donations) of more money from the state. This is also true for the case that you take advantage of is actually just a gap in the law. Because not everything that is legal is also legitimate, and certainly in the policy. Especially in this matter of the fatal impression that you just have to be clever enough to milk the state final.

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