Angela Merkel will answer questions from the members of the Bundestag from 1:05 p.m.
And there are sure to be a few, because on Wednesday morning there was a lot of confusion.
The decision on Easter rest is to be withdrawn, the Prime Minister decided on Wednesday in a spontaneous telephone call.
There was a lot of criticism of the Corona * resolutions.
From 1:05 p.m., Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to appear in the Bundestag for a government survey.
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Berlin - A lot was mixed up on Wednesday morning.
At 11 a.m., Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the Prime Ministers got together again to talk about the resolutions from the Corona summit.
And therein the sensation: The Easter rest is to be withdrawn.
There should be no additional rest days.
Merkel then said the same in a press conference that was scheduled at short notice.
The rulers came together after heavy criticism of the resolutions on Tuesday.
On the one hand, there is the procedure of the Corona summit itself, which is discussed for hours, meetings go on into the night and information is constantly leaked to the public until everything is overturned again.
On the other hand, the resolutions also cause a great deal of unease.
Because at the time of the Easter lockdown, a lot was not yet clearly defined in legal terms.
The term “rest day” suddenly came into play during the summit marathon.
Parts of the economy have already sounded the alarm, supermarkets expected a rush of customers.
The churches and union members were “surprised” by the announcement that Easter services should be held virtually this year.
And when it comes to schools, each federal state can decide on its own how to proceed.
Angela Merkel in a government survey in the Bundestag: Corona policy sharply criticized
So there is a lot of discussion that Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) also has to face.
On this Wednesday afternoon, after a press statement on the summit, which was called at short notice, the members of the Bundestag will also have the opportunity to ask the head of government their questions.
A government survey with Merkel is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. in parliament.
The question and answer session should last an hour.
It is likely to be mainly about the corona policy.
But the mask affair in the Union may also come up.
But it will probably not get really heated, since only questions from the MPs are allowed in government surveys, no lengthy speeches.
As expected, the opposition sharply criticized the new corona rules on Tuesday.
FDP leader Christian Lindner called the decision paper a “shocking document of lack of plan”.
The Green Group leader Katrin Göring Eckardt complained that the federal government had "led the country into a dead end" after a year with the pandemic.
The AfD MP Alexander Gauland also called on the government to think about “whether it can do something new and better”.
The parliamentary group leader of the Left, Dietmar Bartsch, described the lockdown extension until April 18 as "Because-it-the-federal-government-messed-up-lockdown".
Corona lockdown in Germany: Much incomprehension, also from the ranks of the Union
But there is also a lack of understanding from within the ranks of their own government.
Among other things, Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) thinks little of the divine service announcements and
once again made it clear
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that it was a request, but not a ban.
The Thuringian member of the Bundestag Albert Weiler (CDU) even spoke in an open letter to the Chancellor of "political failure" and called the resolutions a "declaration of surrender".
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