Justice Senator Kreck wants to fight “with fervor” for expropriation
Justice Senator Lena Kreck (left) has announced that she will continue to support the possibility of expropriations from large housing companies. “What we were planning here is such a big deal because it shakes the foundations of capitalism a bit,” said Kreck on Monday evening at a public discussion event entitled “From rent madness to socialization” on Berlin housing policy. At the same time, it is already structurally provided for in the constitution. “And I will fight for that, that’s my political conviction,” said Kreck.
That is why she has such a strong interest in Article 15 of the Basic Law, which makes expropriations possible in principle, not being made dead by the Federal Constitutional Court when the Berlin referendum is implemented. “I will fight for this with all my heart,” announced the senator at the event, to which the initiative “Deutsche Wohnen & Co. expropriate” and the tenants’ association Berlin had invited. “You can very well be a fan of this basic law and still find capitalism stupid,” said Kreck. “And that is actually the position that I, as a leftist, will keep feeding in.”
Kreck called on the initiative, which had launched the successful referendum on the expropriation of a large housing company, to strengthen the expert commission on expropriation announced by the Senate and to propose three members for it. The initiative will decide on this on Tuesday evening in an internal plenary session. The results are to be announced at a Wednesday morning. The commission is to advise whether an expropriation law would be constitutional and make sense in terms of housing, and present the Senate with a recommendation on how to proceed in just under a year.