German state party seeks tougher VW oversight
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Conservatives in Germany's Lower Saxony state called yesterday for tougher oversight of Volkswagen, in which the state owns a fifth of the shares.
The Christian Democrats, hoping to gain control of the government in a state election on October 15, want a shake up in the relationship between the two.
鈥淟ower Saxony鈥檚 share in Volkswagen is not managed professionally enough,鈥 Bernd Althusmann, head of the Christian Democrats in the state, told German newspaper Die Welt in an interview published yesterday.
鈥淭he state must be able to deal with Volkswagen as an equal partner, not as a supplicant,鈥 he said.
The comments follow a report over the weekend in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that cited a VW employee saying state premier Stephan Weil, a Social Democrat (SPD), softened an October 2015 speech about VW鈥檚 actions at the company鈥檚 request.
Weil, who sits on the company鈥檚 supervisory board, denied the report and said the controversy was clearly politically motivated. He defended his decision to allow VW to review the speech, citing the sensitivity of VW鈥檚 discussions at the time with US authorities about emissions rigging.
Lower Saxony will hold new polls on October 15, after a Greens party member defected to the conservatives on Friday, costing the Social Democrat-Greens coalition government its one-seat majority.
The Christian Democrats鈥 Althusmann called for creation of a new state office to oversee VW, and said one of two spots on the supervisory board now reserved for the state should be held by a business expert, not a member of the state government.
The state premier should still sit on the supervisory board, he said, but with the support of an expert whose sole job it was to oversee the carmaker and the state鈥檚 share in it.
Just over half of the 1,007 people polled by the daily Bild on Monday said Weil should not be the SPD鈥檚 candidate for premier in the October election.
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