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FDP MP criticizes the infection control reform: "That is executive arrogance"

2020-11-18T19:22:52.523Z


Changes to the Infection Protection Act are to be made in an urgent procedure due to Corona. FDP man Kuhle sharply criticizes the government's actions.


Changes to the Infection Protection Act are to be made in an urgent procedure due to Corona.

FDP man Kuhle sharply criticizes the government's actions.

Munich

- The opposition is massively critical of the

infection protection reform

.

Interior expert

Konstantin Kuhle

(FDP) calls for more influence for parliament.

Mr. Kuhle, you have been criticizing the planned amendment to the Infection Protection Act for weeks.

Now you criticize opponents of the plans yourself.

Why?

Kuhle:

You have to separate legitimate questions and criticism from

conspiracy theories

and dictatorship comparisons.

Parallels to the Enabling Act of 1933 are dangerous nonsense.

Of course, the word authorization comes in the

Infection

Protection Act

*

in front.

This is a common process.

The

Federal Government is also authorized to act

in the

Road Traffic

Act.

The topic moves many people.

Alexander Dobrindt recently received 37,000 emails about this.

Kuhle:

He's also head of the

CSU regional group

.

For me it was already 2500 this week. Many of them contained similar formulations and building blocks.

It looks organized.

But some people also have legitimate questions, for example because of the

quotation

requirement

: a law must state which

fundamental rights

are affected by a legal regulation.

Some now believe that the

Infection Protection Act

would

abolish

these

fundamental rights

.

Of course this is not the case.

Your criticism of the content of the draft law remains?

Kuhle:

Yes, gross technical errors were eliminated.

But the criteria according to which the

state governments

may order

certain

measures

are still too general.

Above all, we would have liked to see the

epidemic situation of national importance identified

by the

Bundestag

only persist if it is

confirmed

by

Parliament

every two months

, as in

North Rhine-Westphalia

.

Now we have such a situation, we didn't have it in the summer.

FDP MP Kuhle criticizes the speedy processing of the Infection Protection Act

The government argues that when in doubt, parliament is too slow.

Kuhle:

That is executive arrogance.

The

Parliament

has about fast the

short-time compensation

decided.

Not every individual Corona * measure should be decided, but it should make general considerations for restrictions on

fundamental rights

.

The current change in the Infection Protection Act is going too fast for you.

Kuhle:

The draft was submitted at the beginning of November, and there was a hearing on Thursday with massive

expert criticism

.

Numerous changes were presented on Monday, which the health committee should discuss on the same day and which the

Bundestag

and

Bundesrat

should now

finally vote on.

The

opposition

must have a

little more time

to deal with it.

Will the Corona ordinances become more court-proof with the new law?

Kuhle:

That is difficult to predict, but we will find out very soon.

The interview was conducted by Stefan Reich.

* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

List of rubric lists: © Peter Steffen / dpa

Source: merkur

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