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Corona-Zoff: Söder shoots against Berlin again - Klingbeil (SPD) now calls him "Mini-Trump"

2020-10-08T15:27:08.578Z


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".


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

Twitter

, 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

.

(fd) * merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editors network

List of rubric lists: © Paul Zinken / dpa

Source: merkur

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