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Corona trouble: Mayor at Maischberger "stunned" - Chancellery chief maneuvers around sensitive questions

2021-03-25T09:13:50.828Z


Head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, comments on “maischberger. die week ”for the lockdown turnaround: He does not consider calls for Merkel to resign as appropriate.


Head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, comments on “maischberger.

die week ”for the lockdown turnaround: He does not consider calls for Merkel to resign as appropriate.

Berlin - "maischberger.

die woche ”deals less with the topics of the week than with the topic of the day on Wednesday: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had publicly asked for forgiveness at noon in view of the“ Easter rest ”which had broken over her knee - an unusual process.

Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU) will be available to answer questions in the studio.

He tries to explain himself, but more than a few details about the chaotic Corona summit on Monday cannot be avoided.

The viewers learn, for example, that the decision to lock down Easter was initiated by Chancellor Merkel, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD), Berlin's Mayor Michael Müller (SPD), Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and Helge Braun.

Head of the Chancellery Helge Braun at “maischberger.

die week ”:“ I have my share in it ”

However, the viewers also learn that this proposal had not undergone any legal review - which the Prime Ministers involved on Monday probably assumed.

Talk host Sandra Maischberger quotes, for example, the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD), who doubted but agreed to a legal review.

Maischberger therefore asks: "How can it happen that you have not legally secured this beforehand?"

Chancellery chief Braun explains that they were looking for a new instrument to “pull in a brake block nationwide”, while other, already known proposals and measures had been rejected.

The idea of ​​the "Easter rest" was "arose in the discussion", which is why Braun says: "I have my share in it, so I agree with the apology."

"Maischberger.

die week "- these guests discuss with:

  • Helge Braun (CDU) - Head of the Chancellery

  • Dirk Neubauer (SPD) - Mayor Augustusburg

  • Dr.

    Viola Priesemann - physicist at the Max Planck Institute

  • Dagmar Rosenfeld - Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Welt"

  • Micky Beisenherz - TV presenter

  • Manfred Lütz - psychiatrist and Catholic theologian

Because this admission is not enough for Maischberger, she investigates and asks how serious Braun considers the mistake to be.

He admits: “This is a big mistake because it has led to a lot of people adjusting to it, positively or negatively.

That shouldn't be underestimated.

Something like that mustn't happen again. "

The head of the Chancellery does not want to know anything about demands that the Chancellor should resign or ask for a vote of confidence: “Many say that a culture of error is important and respect the Chancellor's reaction.

Then immediately afterwards to continue the discussion and to talk about questions of trust and resignations, I don't think that's appropriate. "After all, Braun agrees with the growing criticism of the Prime Minister's conferences:" We have to prepare these things differently in the future. "

Merkel receives a damning verdict on “Maischberger” (ARD): “Somehow consensus” at the summit

Talk host Maischberger then escapes a laugh that says something like: "Oh, what are you not saying?"

The commentators who took part in the discussion share this view, above all

World

Editor-in-Chief Dagmar Rosenfeld.

Although she does not think the resignation demands are correct, because a government reshuffle would come at an inopportune time six months before the federal elections, the Chancellor issued a devastating verdict: “We have seen that it is now more important to find a kind of consensus than that about the correctness of measures. "

The Catholic theologian and psychiatrist Manfred Lütz also sees it this way: “The format doesn't work like that.

Not psychologically, not politically.

It has to be prepared much better and not react from time to time just to present something. "TV presenter Micky Beisenherz also shares this view:" You can't do anything more than that. "

Corona policy under fire: Mayor is "stunned"

Unlike in the Chancellery and during nightly MPKs, the mayor of the small Saxon town of Augustusburg, Dirk Neubauer (SPD), tries to make a difference on the smallest political level.

The local politician says he is “stunned how badly we are doing politics from top to bottom, especially in such a pandemic situation.

We are not involved in vaccination, we are not involved in testing. ”4,512 people live in his city, 19 of whom are currently infected with Covid-19, which leads to an incidence value of 350.

Neubauer complains that the incidence value is not suitable as a benchmark for small communities.

From April 1st, Augustusburg will be carrying out a model project together with the city of Oberwiesenthal, in the course of which, with digital help, “tested people meet tested people”.

A QR code turns negative tests into admission tickets to museums and restaurants.

"Maischberger": Expert Priesemann defends corona limit values ​​- "The incidence is extremely helpful"

Physicist Viola Priesemann from the Max Planck Institute is also connected via video.

She defends the incidence value, it is the most reliable quantity to predict the occupancy of intensive care beds and the deaths.

Infection protection is a priority for Mayor Neubauer, but his interim results are bleak: “There is collateral damage that we don't even talk about.

We talk about billions of dollars, about economic settlements, but we don't talk about what it does to society.

And we don't talk about what it does to democracy either.

Because what we are doing here is extremely anti-democratic. ”The people, especially in the east of the republic, in his opinion, feel“ too little picked ”.

His warning: "If politics can no longer explain itself, we will have a problem." Neubauer is optimistic about the model project: "We will prove that it is possible."

"Maischberger.

die week “- the conclusion

The fact that the head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, is not chatting past his boss Angela Merkel, is obvious even before the show begins.

Still, many of his answers are more of a puffing around.

For the other studio guests and talk show host Maischberger, this sometimes leads to a painful grin and strained facial expressions.

In the end, thanks to Dirk Neubauer, the realization remains that local politicians need more support in their work.

The emotional appearance of the mayor of Augustusburg can therefore only be recommended to Braun's boss Angela Merkel.

Source: merkur

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