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Before the vote on changes to the Infection Protection Act, thousands of spam emails were apparently sent to members of parliament
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Before the Bundestag vote on the Infection Protection Act this Wednesday, numerous MPs received a flood of critical spam e-mails.
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt said before a meeting of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag that his office alone had received around 37,000 such emails by Tuesday morning.
The vast majority are identical with identical passages in the text.
Who is behind it cannot be clarified.
There are also calls to parliamentary offices, for example from the constituency, where people have been given false information, said Dobrindt.
He spoke of a "brutal abuse of political debate in the networks with the use of deliberate misinformation".
So society should be polarized.
On Wednesday, the Bundestag and Bundesrat want to adopt changes to the Infection Protection Act.
This involves distance requirements, contact restrictions, mask requirements, closings of shops and bans on events.
Several demonstrations have been registered in front of the Reichstag building and in the area - by opponents of the Corona restrictions such as the so-called lateral thinkers and counter-demonstrators.
Police should keep the way to the Bundestag clear
Dobrindt said that he assumed that one would not see that there would be an occupation of the Reichstag steps similar to an earlier demonstration by opponents of masked people.
He also assumes that the accessibility of the Bundestag will be ensured for the MPs by the police.
It would be "a more than critical process if the Members of Parliament to vote in Parliament could not reach the Chamber".
The CSU politician said that facts about the Civil Protection Act are not widespread among the critics, and concerns about false information spread on the Internet are high.
A smart communication strategy is needed to counter this.
When critics speak of an "enabling law", however, it is a malicious lie.
50 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants - the limit value should be enshrined in law
The rights of parliament should not be weakened, but strengthened.
With the »Enabling Act« the National Socialists laid the foundation for abolishing the separation of powers.
The parliament in the Reichstag was effectively switched off.
Supporters of the "lateral thinking" movement had started a petition on the Internet under the title "No to the basis of authorization" and asked the Bundestag not to pass the new edition of the law.
With the changes to the existing law, for example, the limit for serious corona measures at 50 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants is to be anchored in law.
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