Bremen's mayor Andreas Bovenschulte has come out against a CSU proposal that would introduce an extremism clause into the Länderfinanzausgleich. Under the idea, a federal state governed by the AfD or the Left would receive less money from the system of fiscal equalization. Bovenschulte says he cannot follow the reasoning behind it. For him, cutting a state's funds over the party that happens to govern it would amount to pure arbitrariness, or as he put it, 'reine Willkür.' The Länderfinanzausgleich exists to redistribute money between Germany's states so their finances even out. Making payments conditional on who is in government would, in his eyes, corrupt that purpose. His warning puts the Bremen head of government squarely at odds with the Bavarian CSU.