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Bodo Ramelow
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Thuringia, with its left-wing Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow, is shirking: The eastern German state only partially agrees to the massive restrictions on public life agreed by the federal and state governments.
At the press conference after the Corona crisis summit, Merkel reported that the new resolutions would be supported by all prime ministers.
Despite the very different infection levels in the federal states, everyone participated, she said.
In the protocol statement of the State Chancellery available to SPIEGEL, however, it is said that Thuringia only supports "those measures that are suitable and proportionate for an effective containment of the infection process through scientific knowledge".
Thuringia expects the Bundestag to determine an acute national health emergency, which justifies the resolutions passed by the Conference of Prime Ministers (MPK).
In addition, the adoption of the MPK resolution was "not linked to any prejudice for the parliamentary procedure in the Free State of Thuringia".
At the same time, Ramelow demanded in the submission from the federal government "that he should ensure that all actors directly and indirectly affected by the measures taken would be effectively supported by means of his financial strength and the options for structuring the tax revenue that he was solely responsible for vis-à-vis the states.
In the evening Ramelow said: "There is no refusal by Thuringia."
However, he will submit the resolutions to the Thuringian state parliament and its cabinet for confirmation.
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