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Corona: Aiwanger attacks Merkel's emergency brake - partly "unrelated to the subject" and "schizophrenic"

2021-04-28T01:59:03.692Z


The Corona emergency brake goes too far for the free voters. The party presented a constitutional complaint at a press conference on Thursday. The curfew was particularly criticized.


The Corona emergency brake goes too far for the free voters.

The party presented a constitutional complaint at a press conference on Thursday.

The curfew was particularly criticized.

Update from April 22, 4:33 p.m.:

CSU and Free Voters are by no means always in agreement on fighting pandemics. Now the dispute in the Bavarian coalition is coming to a head. The Free Voters (FW) presented the first of two planned constitutional complaints against the new federal emergency brake on Thursday in Berlin (see previous updates). The aim is to overturn the new nationwide night curfew in regions with a seven-day incidence over 100, said FW Federal Chairman and Bavarian Vice-Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger.



There was sharp opposition from the CSU. "It is incomprehensible that Hubert Aiwanger doubts the necessity of the exit restrictions in this critical phase," said State Chancellor Florian Herrmann. Exit restrictions are an important and scientifically recognized instrument in combating pandemics. Herrmann accused Aiwanger of an obvious campaign maneuver.



Aiwanger said in Berlin that they wanted to defend the citizens' “rights to freedom”. With a first constitutional complaint, the Free Voters initially turn against the night curfew, with a second they want to overturn the new emergency brake rule for trade.



Herrmann pointed out that the Free Voters always supported the exit restriction that has long been in force in Bavaria with an incidence of 100 or more.

He emphasized: “The political motivation for the constitutional lawsuit is therefore obvious.

The virus is unlikely to be impressed by such an election maneuver. "

Corona: Aiwanger attacks Merkel's emergency brake - partly "unrelated to the subject" and "schizophrenic"

Update from April 22nd, 2:31 pm

: In an interview with "Welt live", Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger spoke again about the Corona emergency brake. The planned constitutional complaint of the Free Voters about the emergency brake was presented at a press conference (see previous update). “This generality of the federal law does not do justice to the situation,” he said. "This law should not even be passed."

“In this differentiated form, the curfew does not do justice to the situation.

It is an enormous encroachment on civil liberties. ”Exit restrictions measured against an incidence independent of possible clusters on site“ missed the point.

This can not be right".

Aiwanger believes that the federal government has "failed terribly in many respects."

The impression that “Berlin could do better” would be “disempowerment of one's own soul”.

Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs accuses the federal government of making decisions "on the ground" "outside the field" and far away from the citizens.

Some of the rules of the Corona emergency brake are "schizophrenic".

Corona: Aiwanger sharply criticizes Merkel's emergency brake as "overreaching" - and hopes for Steinmeier's refusal

Update from April 22nd, 1 p.m.:

The press conference in which the planned constitutional complaint of the Free Voters about the emergency brake was presented has ended.

Hubert Aiwanger and his party colleague Joachim Streit once again expressed their clear rejection of the nationwide Infection Protection Act.

They were supported by lawyer Niko Härting.

Corona emergency brake in Bavaria: Aiwanger makes it clear at a press conference - "The procedure is detrimental to democracy"

The aim is to defend the citizens' “rights to freedom”, stated Federal Chairman Hubert Aiwanger at the beginning. He argued: The federal government had neither the competencies nor the means to “govern” downwards in this way without regional peculiarities being able to flow into it. “The federal government is becoming overreach with a policy that does not make sense.” He spoke of a major mistake that is constitutionally inadmissible. "This approach by the federal government is detrimental to democracy because it undermines other institutions, states and municipalities."



It is not about denying Corona or worsening health protection, according to the Minister of Economic Affairs - on the contrary: State governments and district administrators could lead the fight against Corona much more precisely and thus more effectively.

Aiwanger: "I am deeply amazed at the willingness with which the federal states give their skills to Berlin."

Corona emergency brake: Free voters want to file a lawsuit - "curfew restriction of personal freedom"

He got approval from a quarrel. The fact that all countries would be lumped together by the nationwide emergency brake leads, according to Streit, to “firstly, no effectiveness takes place and secondly, people completely lose acceptance of the measures.” Attorney Härting added: “The curfew is a restriction of personal freedom. “In the Basic Law, this is on the same level as the protection of life and health. "Therefore, this restriction of freedom is not permitted by the law."

With a second constitutional complaint, the Feien voters also want to bring down the planned emergency brake rule for trade, as Aiwanger has already announced.

Before that, however, the party relies on Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier: they have already submitted their first constitutional complaint to him - in the hope that he will not sign the change in the law.

Only then should the lawsuit be filed in Karlsruhe, if necessary.

Update from April 22nd, 11:56 am:

The press conference with Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) is about to begin in Berlin.

Here he will present the previously announced constitutional complaint of his party to the public.

Munich - How will the Corona * pandemic continue in Bavaria?

On this point, an important decision is imminent on Thursday, April 22nd: The Federal Council will decide on the extended Infection Protection Act - the Corona * emergency brake.

Corona in Bavaria: Free voters present constitutional complaint against the Infection Protection Act

However, this law clearly goes too far for the free voters.

“These sweeping interventions in civil liberties and the economy are too undifferentiated.

It is also less radical, ”says Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger, federal and Bavarian state chairman of the party.

For this reason, the Federal Association of Free Voters will go public today at a press conference with the previously announced constitutional complaint.

“The planned Infection Protection Act is too general, undifferentiated and radical.

There is also a lower threshold, with more competence in the federal states and municipalities, as is currently the case, "Aiwanger is quoted in a press release.

Everything that the federal government decides now can also be decided by the federal states and municipalities - if it makes sense locally, argues the Minister of Economic Affairs.

Corona emergency brake in Bavaria: criticism from Aiwanger - "Infection Protection Act too general and radical"

Aiwanger demands: “We have to legally avert this encroachment on civil rights and the economy by the federal government.

Otherwise, the gap between government and citizens would widen, also to the detriment of democracy. "

In addition to the Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr.

Joachim Streit, head of the parliamentary group in Rhineland-Palatinate and Prof. Niko Härting, Härting Lawyers Berlin.

The press conference starts at 12 noon.

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