Member of the Bundestag pressured: "Absolutely unacceptable behavior"

Opponents of the new Infection Protection Act harassed politicians in the Reichstag in Berlin last week.

The Tölzer Kurier asked whether the two members of the Bundestag from the region also came into contact with the troublemakers.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - "No, fortunately I can say no," said Alexander Radwan (CSU) when asked whether he too had been harassed before the vote.

He was in another building at the time.

“My employees told me, however, that it was going very well.” Radwan only saw the beginnings of the demonstrations in the morning - when he was cycling to work.

The fact that some of the protesters got access to the Reichstag at the invitation of individual AfD members and threw themselves at the members immediately before a vote - "that is a new quality," says Radwan.

From the point of view of the federal politician, it was an absurd action.

"On the one hand, these people supposedly want to strengthen democracy," says Radwan.

But with their behavior they did exactly the opposite.

Andreas Wagner (left): "The processes must be fully clarified."

Andreas Wagner (left) also made no acquaintance with the intruders on Wednesday.

“Personally, I was not pressured by anyone in the Bundestag, and there was no attempt to intercept me or to get into my office,” said Geretsrieder.

However, Wagner also knows the video that shows a woman, filming with a cell phone, harassing Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier in front of an elevator.

“I consider such behavior to be absolutely unacceptable,” emphasizes Wagner.

"The processes must be fully clarified."

To move the amendment of the Infection Protection Act close to the Nazi “Enabling Act” and to claim that this would introduce a “dictatorship”, Wagner considers a disinformation campaign for the right-wing extremist scene and conspiracy ideologues.

In his view, you want to damage parliamentary democracy.

"However, many people have legitimate concerns and they have to be taken seriously," emphasizes Wagner.

He considers infection protection to be important in order to stop the spread of the corona virus.

“As far as the restriction of basic rights is necessary, however, the Bundestag and the state parliaments must decide and have control over them.

Since this is not the case with the change in the law, I have not approved the law and rejected it in the roll-call vote. "

Wagner voted against the law, Radwan for it

Alexander Radwan, on the other hand, voted for the new Infection Protection Act.

Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, it strengthens democracy “because the concrete measures have now been decided in a parliamentary process”.

In addition, the anti-corona measures are now generally limited in time.

"If you want to extend the countries, you have to justify it every time."

Even if Alexander Radwan was not physically harassed by the demonstrators, attempts were still made to build up a certain pressure in advance, he says.

The CSU member of the Bundestag had received around 1,500 e-mails before the vote, plus countless calls.

“From questions from concerned citizens to corona deniers, everything was there.” Sis

You can read the current developments regarding Corona in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district here.