The Union parliamentary group leader calls for a “real” lockdown - but before the federal-state consultations, a major point of contention with the SPD is evidently emerging.
The federal-state consultations with
Chancellor Merkel
* (CDU *) have
been brought forward to
January 19
.
The reason is the continued high number of
corona cases *
and a threatening
virus mutation
*.
According to a report,
SPD
* Prime Ministers are bothered by two details in advance.
Berlin - Before the next
Corona summit
with Chancellor
Angela Merkel (CDU),
there is apparently displeasure among some country leaders.
“The mutation worries us all very much.
We need
a consultation with the scientists
on Monday
.
On this basis, we have to make further decisions on Tuesday, "said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister
Manuela Schwesig (SPD) of
the
picture
- and according to the article means those experts who advise Merkel.
Bild
wants to know: "Some SPD federal states are demanding more figures and data on the current Corona situation in order to make such a far-reaching decision."
Lockdown tightening in Germany?
"Better to be right now" (Brinkhaus)
The line of argument: The
RKI *
figures are currently less meaningful because of the holidays - and there is no information about the spread and danger of the corona mutations from Great Britain and South Africa *.
+
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) wants to consult scientists before the Corona summit.
© Jens Büttner / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
Sounds like it could crunch in the round next Tuesday.
For, for example, Union
parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) has
now pleaded for a comprehensive expansion of the corona restrictions.
"Better to be right now - instead of an endless loop into the summer,"
the
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ)
quotes him
in its Saturday edition.
"In particular, the high infection rate of the new mutation worries us very much."
Before the Merkel-Corona summit: Brinkhaus brings public transport shutdown into play
And in the
WDR show
“Current Hour”, Brinkhaus replied on Friday to the question of whether a
night-time exit
restriction should
be discussed
during the deliberations
: “Yes, everything has to be put on the table.” He also said on RTL / ntv: “We have to talk to industry and business again to
see
whether all the capacities for mobile work in the
home office
are being used.
We will also have to look again to see whether
local transport is
not switched off or at least organized in such a way that there are not so many people in a bus or in a wagon. "
In view of the again partly different state regulations after the last federal-state consultation on January 5th, Brinkhaus added in the
NOZ
: “And I expect that the things that are decided at the Prime Minister
's Conference
in Berlin will be one at home in the state capitals implemented and consistently followed up. ”(dpa / AFP / frs)
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