Country uprising against the traffic light's Corona plan: Prime Minister becomes clear - two wrong signals

The SPD, Greens and FDP have presented their corona course for the coming months.

The countries have different ideas.

The news ticker.

• The traffic light parties SPD *, Greens * and FPD * want to conclude their coalition negotiations by the end of November.

• The parties have already presented a Corona * timetable for the coming months.

  At the center of the discussion meanwhile: compulsory vaccination

  (see first report from November 12th, 1:14 p.m.).

• FDP boss Christian Lindner welcomes the return to free rapid tests

  (see update from November 12, 5:23 p.m.).

  The obligation to test in companies wants to tighten the traffic light

  (see update from November 12th, 8:08 pm).

• The criticism of the planned Corona law of the traffic light from the countries is becoming increasingly clear

  (see update from November 13, 3:20 p.m.).

• This news ticker is continuously updated.

Update from November 13, 3:20 p.m .:

The traffic light parties' plans for a new infection protection law have to be improved from the point of view of some prime ministers and state health ministers.

The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) told the

: "The measures previously defined in the law are not enough." He wanted more leeway for the states.

The Minister of Health of Schleswig-Holstein Heiner Garg (FDP) told the newspaper: "What we cannot afford in this situation is to call the mediation committee." that require.

North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) told the newspaper that the traffic lights were sending two wrong signals in this situation: "It does not want to prolong the epidemic situation and curtail the rights of state parliaments in the fight against pandemics." Both are irresponsible.

The law planned by the traffic light weakens the country in the fight against Corona.

"We will therefore push for changes for more protection in the Federal Council." Previously, Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder had sharply criticized the planned law.

Corona: Union defends itself against traffic lights - and wants to extend the epidemic situation

Update from November 13th, 12.30 p.m.:

The Union faction is apparently taking action against the plans of the traffic light parties. According to a media report, she wants to work for an extension of the "epidemic situation". As the

reported on Saturday, a corresponding application should be registered for next Thursday for discussion and voting in the Bundestag. According to the will of the parliamentary group, the Bundestag should determine the special situation beyond November 25, the newspaper wrote, citing the paper available to it.

Parliamentary group vice-chairman Thorsten Frei (CDU) told the newspaper that a “sustainable, legal instrument” was now necessary, especially for the federal states.

"The traffic light parties are now canceling this out without providing adequate replacement." In this dramatic situation, action must be taken.

"The situation has never justified the persistence of the epidemic situation as much as it does now."

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The future traffic light coalition partners have met with criticism with their corona measures.

© Mike Schmidt / imago

Regarding the chances of success of the application in the Bundestag, he said: “We are an opposition faction and do not have a majority in parliament.

But we are making the right application and using the power of the arguments to advertise. ”However, the incumbent Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) originally spoke out in favor of not prolonging the epidemic situation.

Corona: Do the traffic lights need to be improved now?

Vaccination debate is ongoing - SPD announces lockdown

Update from November 12th, 8:08 p.m.:

In the fight against the rapidly increasing number of corona infections, the traffic light parties want

to make companies and employees more responsible, according to

a report by the

.

This should emerge from a so-called formulation aid for stricter rules in the workplace, which is part of the planned amendment to the Infection Protection Act by the SPD, Greens and FDP.

Accordingly, every employee for whom personal contacts “cannot be excluded” must in future prove one of the three Gs (vaccinated, recovered or tested).

Anyone who refuses to disclose their vaccination or convalescence status must be tested daily in the test center or in the company.

Stricter rules should apply to employees who have contact with people who are particularly at risk, such as in nursing homes or clinics.

Here, the traffic light parties want to enforce a corona test obligation for vaccinated and recovered employees as well as visitors.

However, vaccinated and convalescent people would only have to complete two tests per week, which should also be possible as self-tests without monitoring.

Corona plans of the traffic light: Lindner welcomes the return to free tests

Update from November 12, 5:23 p.m.:

From Saturday (November 13), German citizens can take advantage of free corona rapid tests again.

FDP leader Christian Lindner welcomed this measure on Twitter.

“It is right that the free citizen tests are now being reintroduced.

Their abolition was premature.

They are still an important building block in the fight against the pandemic, ”said the party leader of the Liberals.

"Further measures must follow, for example and above all with vaccinations," added Lindner.

The FDP politician initially left open what exactly these measures would look like.

However, Lindner and his party have so far refused to be vaccinated.

In contrast, the SPD and the Greens do not want to completely exclude this, at least for certain professional groups.

Corona: Do the traffic lights need to be improved now?

Vaccination debate is ongoing

First report from November 12th, 1:14 p.m.:

Berlin - It is a tough first test for the designated traffic light coalition.

And that long before SPD politician Olaf Scholz * even set foot in the Federal Chancellery.

On Thursday, November 11th, the SPD, Greens and FDP launched their law for new corona measures.

Olaf Scholz gave his first near-chancellor speech * - and appeared noticeably cautious.

The traffic light parties are also discussing a possible corona vaccination requirement for certain professional groups - but opinions differ *.

Probably one will have to introduce a job group-specific vaccination requirement in the coming weeks, said the Green health politician Janosch Dahmen on Friday in Berlin.

He named nurses, doctors, cleaning and kitchen staff in clinics or care facilities.

Corona: Traffic light parties are discussing mandatory vaccination - lockdown is apparently not an issue

“This is a topic or a discussion that we cannot escape from.

We will lead them very openly in my parliamentary group, ”said the health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Sabine Dittmar.

You have to weigh up very carefully, she added, referring to the dangers of a possible brain drain.

It was said of the FDP that they would "naturally" face the discussion.

"But it is also important for us whether we can achieve that with milder means," said the health politician of the group, Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus.

The German Ethics Council recommended on Thursday that certain professional groups should be checked for compulsory vaccinations.

In general, the Liberals were open to readjustments.

"That will certainly be sharpened again," said FDP health politician Andrew Ullmann the Phoenix broadcaster.

"I think I am sure to say that we are also open to further good and law-abiding and proportionate measures." He also promised further efforts in terms of vaccinations.

"If we let it go like this now and wait to see what happens, Christmas will be difficult."

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Christian Lindner (l.) And Olaf Scholz (r.) Have a lively discussion.

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

The expected future government partners, the SPD, FDP and Greens, are discussing measures to accelerate vaccinations and so-called booster vaccinations in Germany this Friday against the background of the sharp rise in corona numbers.

Before the talks, Dittmar suggested that pharmacies could also take on booster vaccinations.

She referred to corresponding model projects that had already been carried out for flu vaccinations.

SPD, Greens and FDP: Lockdown is currently not an issue - trust in the population is waning in the corona crisis

Lockdown measures, as they are currently being discussed in neighboring Netherlands, are currently not an issue in Germany, according to the traffic light parties. "The lockdown is not up for debate in the discussions," said the health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Sabine Dittmar, on Friday in Berlin. In view of the vaccination quota, this would also be “difficult to enforce,” she added. 

Meanwhile, confidence in the coalitionists within the population is waning.

The majority of Germans have little confidence in the SPD, Greens and SPD when it comes to fighting the Corona * pandemic.

In the poll published on Friday by the Mannheim research group Wahlen for the ZDF “Politbarometer”, only 13 percent of those questioned named the SPD as competent on this point, the FDP only six percent and the Greens five percent.

The CDU / CSU performed slightly better, and was rated as competent by 25 percent.

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