After a renewed assessment of the Corona situation in Berlin, Markus Söder (CSU) has to accept severe criticism again: The SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil considers his behavior to be "indecent".
Berlin
has for the fight against the second
Corona wave *
new measures announced.
The
governing mayor Michael Müller
(SPD) was angry at the announcement about the criticism of his
corona policy
.
Now another SPD politician is bringing out bitter criticism of
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder
.
Update from October 8, 5:08 p.m.:
The number of
infections in Germany is
increasing rapidly - 4,000 people were
infected
with the
corona virus *
within one day,
the
Robert Koch Institute
reported on Thursday morning
.
The number of cases is particularly high in
major
German
cities
.
In the
morning magazine
(ZDF)
,
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) was
again concerned that a city like
Berlin
was about to lose control of the number of infections.
He urgently warned against
giving up
caution in the
pandemic
.
"All around us, the numbers are exploding in Europe, [...] also in the USA and elsewhere," says @Markus_Soeder (CSU), Prime Minister of Bavaria, explaining the current #Corona rules.
One shouldn't neglect caution now, said Söder.
pic.twitter.com/Pvv6GxTFJd
- ZDF Morgenmagazin (@morgenmagazin) October 8, 2020
Corona-Zoff goes into the second round: SPD takes off against Söder (CSU)
At the beginning of the week,
Söder
had already
discussed
the developments in the
capital
- now he has to accept
sharp criticism
from the
SPD
again.
The
SPD general secretary Lars Klingbeil
accused
Söder of
“dividing the country”
only shortly after his interview in the
ZDF morning
magazine.
On
, he accuses him of using the pandemic politically: "What
Söder
motivates the
mini-Trump
(...) is incomprehensible to me," tweeted Klingbeil on Thursday morning.
Nobody has politically instrumentalized the high number of infections in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.
What motivates Söder to do the mini-Trump here and to divide the country is incomprehensible to me.
It's just indecent.
https://t.co/G7i7ksTQFf
- Lars Klingbeil 🇪🇺 (@larsklingbeil) October 8, 2020
Klingbeil
further
describes
Söder's
behavior in the
tweet
as "indecent", after all, nobody made the
high numbers of infections
in
Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia
politically useful.
Klingbeil
is not the first politician
to feel controlled and
pilloried
by
Söder
.
Even
Berlin's mayor Michael Müller (SPD)
already responded to the criticism of the Bavarian
Prime Minister
and rebuked him - though without mentioning his name - in a roundabout way: "To some extent unbearable," he found, would forgive that "some" here "style points" Although
Berlin
is otherwise of no interest, Müller said in a press conference on Tuesday.
Berlin mayor Müller counters Söder - tip against Bavaria - "somewhat unbearable"
Original article from October 8th:
The second wave of the
Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus
is currently rolling over
Germany
and is particularly striking in the big cities of the Federal Republic.
According to the figures from the
Robert Koch Institute
, Munich, for example, has a 7-day incidence * of 34.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Cologne stands at 39.6 and Hamburg at 27.5.
Even
Berlin
- the most populous metropolis in Germany - has his hands full to get the daily new infections under control.
According to the
RKI
, the
districts of Mitte, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Neukölln exceed
the critical threshold of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants
with a
7-day incidence
.
Berlin: Mayor Müller (SPD) takes action due to increasing numbers of infections - curfew for the catering trade
So it was not particularly surprising that the ruling mayor of the capital
Michael Müller (SPD *)
announced new measures for
Berlin
yesterday, Tuesday
, which should help
to get
the
infection rate
*
under control.
The announced changes include restrictions on restaurants between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., but also a
contact
restriction
in the private sector for Berlin citizens.
The Senate decided on these corona measures today - they will apply from Saturday: A new #closing hour between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
All information 👉 https://t.co/i7MNtbFzos pic.twitter.com/UburJkyfY0
- rbb | 24 (@ rbb24) October 6, 2020
Müller
admits that these are significant interventions
.
Above all, however, he asked to assess how the situation would develop if one did not act decisively now.
Then there would not only be
restrictions
for the catering trade, but no possibility at all to maintain operations.
“We have something to do,” says Müller with regard to the situation in Berlin, and yet at the beginning of the
press conference he
cannot refrain from settling the accounts with the public perception of Berlin.
Müller is angry about criticism of Berlin: "Who can actually point the finger at whom on this basis?"
“Who can actually point the finger at whom on this basis?” Asks the
Governing Mayor
, after
quoting
the
7-day incidence of
several major German cities
from statistics
, all of which are on a similar level to that of Berlin.
There is a lot to do in the capital, but also in most of the metropolises in Germany.
“That's why I say in all clarity that I find it somewhat unbearable how some people here give postings and those who are not really
interested in
Berlin
suddenly know exactly what the situation is like in Berlin and what to do in Berlin “,
Müller
continues to
accuse
.
Berlin's Mayor Müller on his Corona policy - did not sit "wide-legged in every talk show"
In
Berlin
, over the past few weeks, they have limited themselves to work within the coalition and examined what
measures
can be taken there.
This is
particularly important
to
Müller
: "That's why we haven't sat with our legs apart in every talk show and first presented what you can do personally." It
is not possible to determine with
certainty who this head of the
governing mayor
is directed
against
.
In contrast to
Müller's
next comment
, which can be classified in the direction of
Markus Söder
.
Berlin "on the verge of no longer controllability": Müller counters Söder criticism and distributes against Bavaria
At the beginning of the week Söder had said, among other things, that
Berlin
was on the verge of no longer controllability.
A remark that Michael Müller had probably not forgotten.
“In the last few weeks I have not
issued
a
travel warning
for my Berliners in the direction of
Bavaria
, because one cannot be sure how
test results
*
will be achieved there and whether or not they will be wasted for weeks.
I didn't do anything because I don't think it will help, ”is
Müller's
answer to the Free State.
Although the Governing Mayor of Berlin
does not name
Söders
explicitly, the Bavarian state father may certainly feel addressed at this point against his state.
However, behind the clear words of the governing mayor is above all the desire for a common
corona policy
instead of mutual criticism.
During the press conference, Müller also called for the
federal government
to
invite the
federal
states to a new summit
soon in
order
to avert
an impending
lockdown
.
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