Merkel's corona policy under fire - special rights via urgent proceedings? FDP warns of "ministries in a frenzy"

Angela Merkel hoped for a breakthrough with the Prime Minister.

But the Bundestag is also busy with other things.

There are even reminders from the Union.

• At a meeting in the Chancellery on Wednesday, some decisions were left open.

• Meanwhile, the Bundestag is increasingly criticizing the way the federal and state governments work in the corona pandemic.

• The opposition is outraged by plans from the Ministry of Health, among other things - but the SPD and Union are also calling for a change of course.

Berlin / Munich

- It was a moment that could - and probably should - cause concern in Germany.

And presumably rightly so: When

stepped in front of the cameras late on Wednesday evening, she was concerned.

The increase in the number of infections must be stopped, she said: "Otherwise it will not end well."

The infection has not yet been stopped.

Just as little as the breakthrough in the

had succeeded.

But while Merkel

added a warning

in her traditional

at the weekend

, there are other concerns in the Bundestag: The opposition and government are not calling for a new federal-state agreement at the highest level.

But the involvement of Parliament.

There is no shortage of drastic reminders - the Chancellor, but also

are in some

cases

heavily criticized.

could fly a legislative plan around the ears.

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FDP leader Christian Lindner,

for example, took Merkel's insistent words in the podcast on Sunday as an occasion for a fundamental scolding.

"If the Chancellor sees such a drama, she must immediately submit a government statement," he said in the

.

"A podcast does not replace the debate in the Bundestag when it comes to fundamental rights."

Noteworthy: There has also been displeasure from the governing parties for days.

The willingness of citizens to

necessary

can only be maintained "if the measures decided are transparent and understandable," said the

, of the

.

For this “a public and comprehensible debate in the Bundestag is necessary”.

And even

parliamentary group leader

- who once surprisingly took over the post from Merkel's confidante Volker Kauder (CDU) - wants parliament to have a stronger say again.

He does

not want to let

the

decide on specific corona rules, as he

explained

to the

.

"But the Bundestag is the place where you create the legal basis, justify yourself for these measures and explain them." In case of doubt, the members of the government should

be able to

their

"within our means"

.

Political scientist Wolfgang Merkel recently issued a clear warning.

Corona criticism: special right for Spahn in urgent proceedings?

FDP warns of "intoxication of powers of attorney"

Such powers are also at issue in Spahn's case.

On Friday it became known that the

wants to

and expand

the

in

.

The new version of the

Protection Act would enable Spahn to issue regulations on his own, insofar as this “is necessary to protect the population from the risk of serious communicable diseases”.

The

has already announced resistance.

And the

is also largely outraged.

"The health minister does not seem to have understood the lesson from the latest court decisions," said

the

.

"Ministers and state governments are not the better legislators," he stressed.

"In the frenzy of the authorization authorizations, many of the legitimate interests of employees and entrepreneurs, parents and volunteers fell under the table of the ministerial bureaucracy."

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The

told Deutschlandfunk that Spahn's suggestions “expand his competencies even further in the corona crisis, which I really don't find acceptable.

"We have to ensure that we have more debate in parliaments about these measures," she emphasized, adding: "It cannot be that in the end only the 16 MPs with the Chancellor decide everything."

Her

tweeted that the Union and the SPD had resigned themselves “far too long” to the “weight” of the prime ministerial conference.

For far too long, the Union and the SPD have resigned themselves to the fact that the Prime Minister's Conference is given such weight.

With all due respect for the Prime Ministers: advice, weighing, decision-making and control belong in parliament.

https://t.co/QC0xD5DVKd

- Britta Haßelmann (@BriHasselmann) October 18, 2020

Before that, the left had verbally opposed the action.

"It is high time for the democratic legitimation of the corona policy," said

the editorial network Germany.

"Too much is proclaimed and hardly anything is justified."

That has to change.

Bartsch also shot violently in the direction of

.

"A prime minister acts like a disciplinarian - with new suggestions every day," he said.

"Before Mr Söder Germany makes regulations, may he get the situation in Bavaria under control."

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There was also criticism at the weekend of the substantive approach of the federal and state governments in the corona crisis.

The Baden-Württemberg

accused them of wasting valuable time.

Those responsible had had time for uniform regulations since April, said Theurer on Saturday in Friedrichshafen.

“Where is the standardized travel return management, where is the holistic test strategy, where are the push messages, where people are notified of test results?” Instead, people are still

returning

to the

such as pen, paper and quarantine .

Such a policy must be stopped.

Brantner missed European coordination: “For example, we still don't have a

.

It is now urgently time to build it up. “

had recently offered the Czech Republic pandemic aid - but this was not an automatic mechanism.

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