Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner is having to replace another member of his administration just five months before the next election to the capital’s House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
Wegner’s culture senator, Sarah Wedl-Wilson, resigned on Friday over funding for projects against anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
The 56-year-old said she was taking responsibility for shortcomings outlined in a report by the court of auditors, which had criticized the funding of several projects as unlawful.<\/p>\n
Wegner now has to find a successor for the post for the second time during his term.<\/p>\n
A year ago, then culture senator Joe Chialo resigned over the scale of cuts in the cultural sector.<\/p>\n
Wedl-Wilson, who was born in the United Kingdom, previously headed the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, then became state secretary and was promoted after Chialo’s resignation.<\/p>\n
The funding scandal concerns the criteria which were used to fund certain projects and the question of whether the projects were chosen under political pressure.<\/p>\n
The Berlin state court of auditors described the funding of 13 projects in the field of preventing anti-Semitism amounting to \u20ac2.6 million ($3.05 million) as “evidently unlawful.”<\/p>\n
It said the cultural administration had violated the state budget code and other rules with its procedures for processing and paying out certain funding applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner is having to replace another member of his administration just five months before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,7264,7263,7265,2687],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-citizens39-charter","tag-governing-mayor-of-berlin","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-kai-wegner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}