A corona emergency brake law for all of Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel's advance came late.
Now he is under criticism - in the Bundestag and from lawyers.
The Corona Summit * are disempowered: A nationwide law should - albeit late - stipulate uniform rules.
Angela Merkel's cabinet passed a draft on Tuesday, and it is due to go to the Bundestag on Friday.
But the plans are met with bitter criticism - also in the GroKo parliamentary groups and with lawyers from the Chancellery.
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Berlin - Quick action, less patchwork in Germany, planning security in the Corona crisis: This is what Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU) hoped for her own emergency brake amendment to the Infection Protection Act.
It doesn't seem to work too well.
The Bundestag, which was under explicit time pressure, did not want to wave through the explosive law in an urgent procedure, the first prime ministers are announcing their own plans - and there are serious legal doubts about the content of Merkel's emergency brake.
Meanwhile, medics are sounding the alarm.
In view of the increasing number of corona cases, you see danger in arrears.
German corona policy is likely to have turbulent days ahead of it.
Corona emergency brake: Opposition is vehemently criticizing the Infection Protection Act - lawyers from the Chancellery are also sounding the alarm
On Friday, the Infection Protection Act goes into the first reading of the Bundestag with the new emergency brake.
The Greens, the Left, the FDP and the AfD have already announced massive concerns.
The planned curfews in particular have met with criticism from the opposition.
But the new competencies for the federal government are also causing suspicion: FDP parliamentary group manager Marco Buschmann criticizes an “extreme concentration of power”.
His left-wing counterpart, Amira Mohamed Ali, sees the possibility of enacting regulations for areas of high incidence by ordinance, a "clean bill of health for the federal government to intervene in basic rights," as she
explained
to the
taz
.
But Merkel's federal government gets even worse: criticism can also be heard from the SPD and the Union.
In addition, even experts from the Chancellery apparently doubt the legal durability of the plans for curfews.
Bild
claims to have
heard
of an extremely critical report from Merkel's house.
Read more:
Curfews and tough extra paragraph - Merkel's new Corona law at a glance
The curfew was problematic in terms of “proportionality” and “currently unproven effectiveness” and has already been cashed in by the courts in countries, according to the paper, in one of seven papers signed to Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU).
In addition, the incidence can be challenged as the sole benchmark for the proposed regulations.
Other factors, such as the R-value or the occupancy of the intensive care beds, would also have to be included in the law.
The own government experts warn of a flop - courts could cash in the new infection protection law again.
Corona law: The Union and the SPD are also criticizing Merkel's plans - Scholz defends curfews
At the same time, there is also criticism from within the Bundestag's own ranks.
"The envisaged law does not allow any regional differentiation and ensures that the planned model tests to cope with the corona pandemic can no longer be implemented," warned the conservative CDU member Sylvia Pantel of the
Westdeutsche Zeitung
.
According to
Bild
, there are currently a dozen Union MPs who reject the law with various arguments - from criticism of curfews to doubts about a centralized approach.
Among them are some party celebrities such as ex-Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer (CSU).
The SPD parliamentary group also called for improvements on Tuesday.
A position paper states: “The incidence value is an important indicator for measuring the incidence of infections.
However, it cannot be used as the sole criterion for the need for measures that often significantly encroach on fundamental rights. "
Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) defended the planned exit restrictions as "proportionate".
“That helped everywhere.
This has been done in many countries around the world.
And it has brought the incidence values down, ”said the finance minister in the ARD“ Morgenmagazin ”.
“That is why this is a measure that is part of the many others.
And it is also proportionate. ”The criticism of the measures has already been“ discussed a thousand times in the federal states ”.
He is confident that the law will be passed “with very clever fine-tuning”.
Merkel's Corona emergency brake: First country is planning its own lockdown - doctors warn: "Has not happened yet"
For the federal states, but also for experts, the procedure * that Merkel initiated last week is going too slowly.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) said on Thursday on the TV broadcaster Welt that her state was already discussing a “hard lockdown” and would “not be able to wait for the federal law”.
It is "unreasonable" that negotiations should now take place in the federal government for 14 days.
"We now need decisions quickly," said Schwesig.
The necessary measures also included exit restrictions.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) has also announced at least additional steps.
“We think it is right that this emergency brake is firmly anchored at the federal level.
But that alone will not help, we have to think more carefully, "said the CSU boss on Wednesday.
What is needed is, for example, “a more modern and flexible vaccination concept in order to increase the speed by reducing bureaucracy and, above all, to make it more flexible”.
The coalition partner Free Voters has meanwhile announced a lawsuit.
All of this takes too long for medical professionals.
The former president of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), Uwe Janssens, turned to politicians on the Phoenix broadcaster: “It's five past twelve, you have to act now, a strategy must now be pursued nationwide uniformly applies. ”If the measures decided weeks ago had been implemented across the board, the current development could have been weakened with a sharp increase in the number of infections.
Karagiannidis said that intensive care physicians are used to death - "but nothing like this has ever happened before."
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fn with material from dpa
) *
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