Before the third Corona summit of the year, the Bavarian state parliament will debate possible easing.
Almost all parties agree.
And it was hardly noticeable that Söder was missing at first.
Munich - The Prime Minister is unable to attend, but he has a stable deputy in the state parliament debate.
"If we open too early, we will gamble away the mutual success of the lockdown," she says.
“The danger is not averted.
An invisible wave is building up. ”Markus Söder could hardly have said it better.
But at the desk is Katharina Schulze, the leader of the Greens *.
Once again this afternoon in parliament, the invisible coalition that supports Bavaria's rigid Corona course can be experienced: With the Greens, the largest opposition faction supports the cornerstones of the lockdown policy.
Admittedly, Schulze sharply criticizes details, for example the technical and personnel equipment of the health authorities.
Your sharpest criticism is aimed at the real CSU coalition partner, the free voters and their ministers for economy and culture.
She makes fun of Vice Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger as a lobbyist for individual interests, the “ski lifts and shoe shops”.
Bavaria in lockdown: State parliament has recently been discussing upcoming corona steps
These informal alliances are not new, they have been in effect since March 2020. Something else is new: That the state parliament is even discussing the upcoming Corona steps.
So far, the MPs have always met to nod off or complain, one or two days after Söder had long since negotiated everything in Berlin and lashed it down in his Munich cabinet.
This time the small FDP * achieved this with the trick of using its right to propose a “current hour” of parliament for a fundamental debate.
"Show your colors before the Prime Minister presents you with a fait accompli," demands parliamentary group leader Martin Hagen with gentle mockery in his voice from the government groups, ie the real ones from the CSU and FW.
Whether that is an “opportunity or a burden”?
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Separated by panes of glass, but united in the matter: The Bavarian state parliament largely follows Markus Söder's corona policy.
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Bavaria in lockdown: easing curfews and demanded for daycare centers and elementary schools
In terms of content, it can be seen that the state parliament tends almost completely to relax slightly.
Almost all parliamentary groups are campaigning for an end to curfews, for open daycare centers, and in some cases also for elementary schools and hairdressers.
All except the AfD * stick to the mask requirement.
The CSU * taunts that if all FDP demands had been followed, Bavaria would be less well off now.
The more exciting session on this day is not open to the public anyway.
In the CSU parliamentary group, Söder tries - there is time for that - for an hour and a half to dispel excessive relaxation requests.
Several participants reported that Söder was urgently warning that the CSU should not harm itself.
There is a high level of basic trust among the population, "after twelve months we mustn't shake now."
Bavaria in lockdown: Söder brings the entire CSU parliamentary group in line
Söder argues again against gradual plans * for loosening.
You can "not fix it to numbers in highly dynamic events".
The top of the faction supports him.
Anyone who believed in an uprising in the parliamentary group saw it collapse to much applause.
CSU Upper Bavaria boss Ilse Aigner, who last week was the only one who had the guts to object and demanded a step-by-step plan, is clearly committed to Söder's strategy.
Large openings are now too early.
But: You need a perspective for falling incidences.
Aigner expects that Bavaria will have clarity in two weeks whether mutations will prevail.
A source of fire remains: The CSU's SME Union around ex-Minister Franz Pschierer from Swabia calls for everything to be opened quickly, including hotels and restaurants.
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