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Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff: "The mood is simply not good, and that benefits certain forces."
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A week before the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) made the federal government jointly responsible for poorer poll numbers in his state.
Hasseloff criticized in the "Welt am Sonntag" in particular the law on the federal emergency brake, with which the federal government had received more powers in the fight against pandemics at the expense of the states.
"Look at the polls before and after this bill was passed."
Haseloff said the law had "certainly inadvertently played into the hands of right-wing extremists."
"The mood is just not good, and that benefits certain forces - I mean the AfD," said Hasseloff.
Current polls for the election in Saxony-Anhalt indicate a head-to-head race between the CDU and AfD for first place.
Hasseloff also criticized the fact that the left side of the political spectrum puts issues at the center of the debate, which for most people are rather subordinate and tend to lead to annoyance.
"This growing potential for frustration is being raised by the AfD," said Haseloff.
As an example, he cited gender-appropriate language: "The way it is expressed in a missionary way annoys a lot of people because it no longer has anything to do with the worlds of many people," he said.
"In the East, self-confident women define themselves through their performance and not through the inland I."
Bring back production capacities from Asia
As a lesson from the pandemic, Haseloff draws that Germany will have to become more self-sufficient in many areas in the future.
"Production capacities, research facilities, drugs - all of this must be available in sufficient quantities in Germany," said the CDU politician, according to the report.
Germany must bring back production capacities from Asia and be prepared to spend more money under its high wage conditions.
"It cannot be that we have to wait for pharmaceutical additives, masks or medicines because the pandemic means that we can no longer deliver enough from Asia," said the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt.
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