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Before Corona summit: First minister calls for special rights for vaccinated people - "constitutionally justifiable"

2021-01-17T06:47:06.812Z


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 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.

  • This

    news ticker

    is updated regularly.

Update January 17, 07:25:

On Tuesday (January 19) of early next will be

prime minister summit

with

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

held in which a premature

extension

and possibly

tightening

the pressure prevailing in Germany hard

lockdown

is to be decided.

Due to the current

corona infection situation

in Germany, it

is already

clear that there will be no

easing of

the applicable measures anytime

soon

.

There are still tens of thousands of

new infections

every day

, the

seven-day incidence

in Germany is far from the federal government's target of 50.

The question arises again and again whether people who have already been vaccinated

should be given

special rights

, as they no longer pose a risk to the population.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and large parts of her government, such as

Health Minister Jens Spahn,

had so far vehemently rejected this request.

Corona summit: Maas demands special rights for vaccinated people

Now, however,

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD

)

rushes

forward and demands exactly that. In an interview with Bild am Sonntag, Maas said: “People who have been vaccinated should be able

to exercise

their

basic rights

again

”.

According to Maas, it is misleading to speak of privileges, because a visit to a restaurant is not a

privilege

but a fundamental right.

The current

corona measures

have severely restricted people's basic rights.

It is therefore logical to give them back to people who no

longer

pose a

threat

to others.

Regarding the concerns of

Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU),

who had warned against a split in society in the event of

easing

for vaccinated people, Maas said: “Yes, this will also lead to

inequalities

in a transition period

, but as long as there is an objective reason for it , that is

constitutionally

justifiable. "

Maas calls for special rights for vaccinated people: "Constitutionally justifiable"

“It has not yet been finally clarified to what extent people who have been

vaccinated

can infect others.

But what is clear: a vaccinated person will no longer take a

ventilator

away from someone.

This means that at least one central reason for restricting fundamental rights is no longer applicable, ”said Maas.

It

is currently unclear

whether the federal government will

debate

freedoms

for vaccinated people

again at another point in time

.

As of Saturday (January 16), over a million people in Germany

had been vaccinated

against the

corona

virus.

Update from January 16, 8:10 p.m.:

The new

CDU chief

and North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister

Armin Laschet

said in a conversation with

Bild

on Saturday evening

: "If the numbers go down, I'll be the first to say we have to lift restrictions again . "

However, he announced a

tightening of the lockdown

in view of the

Corona summit

next week

.

“I believe that we will have to take measures again in the next week to prevent an explosive increase from occurring,” said

Laschet

.

He had already referred to the angry, probably more contagious

virus mutation

in Great Britain

about which too little was known so far

in the ZDF program “Was now?”

.

+

The new CDU boss Armin Laschet announces a tightening of the lockdown for the Corona summit.

© picture alliance / dpa |

Michael Kappeler

Corona summit: Günther doesn't just want to talk about tightening the lockdown

Update from January 16, 6:37 p.m.:

From the point of view of

Schleswig-Holstein's

Prime Minister

Daniel Günther (CDU)

, the

Corona summit

should not only be about which tightening may be necessary.

The CDU politician said on Saturday in an interview with the TV broadcaster

Phoenix

.

"We also have to describe what that means in the months of February, March, April, when certain

incidence

values ​​are

fallen

below, which areas can we then reopen permanently."

Günther

explained that of course you also have to deal with the new

virus variant

and whether the

measures were

sufficient.

However, it was found that even more stringent restrictions had an effect.

"The number of infections is falling in many countries." The

7-day incidence

in Schleswig-Holstein is now 85. This is still far from the target value of 50, but there is still a little time until the end of the month, so Günther.

Lockdown tightening in Germany?

Merkel drove into the parade

First report from January 16:

Berlin - Before the next

Corona summit

with Chancellor

Angela Merkel (CDU)

there is apparently resentment 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)

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

List of rubric lists: © Federico Gambarini

Source: merkur

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