Berlin senator Katrin Lompscher (left) has announced her resignation. She “became aware that there were errors in the settlement of my compensation from my work on the board of directors and the supervisory board,” said Lompscher. The “Daily mirror“According to the errors, a written request in the Berlin House of Representatives made known.
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According to the AFP news agency, she “immediately responded to the state treasury as soon as the lack of transfer became known and transferred the difference,” the politician said. She takes responsibility for the omissions.
“It is clear to me that my serious personal mistake would permanently overshadow my further acting as a senator,” said Lompscher. At the same time, she resigned from the three supervisory board mandates associated with the office.
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She has been a member of the red-red-green Berlin Senate since December 2016 as a senator for urban development and housing, from her home comes about the controversial rent cap. From 2006 to 2011 she was already Senator for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection.
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According to reports, the left-wing politician received 8,100 euros a year from her work on the supervisory bodies of state-owned companies. In the meantime, she is said to have paid 7,000 euros into the state treasury. Accordingly, she was a member of committees at Tempelhof Projekt GmbH, Investitionsbank and Tegel Projekt GmbH.
“We would like to thank Katrin from the bottom of my heart for the work she has done in recent years,” the Berlin State Association of the Left announced on Twitter.
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The left faction in Berlin took Lompscher’s decision “with the greatest respect,” it said in a joint statement Explanation. Lompscher’s “courage to deal with difficult conflicts, their persistence and inventiveness” “would have promoted a change in rent and urban development in favor of Berliners,” said the parliamentary group. The responsible committees would “promptly” agree on the successor.
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