According to the Bundestag, the Bundesrat must approve the new Corona law on “traffic lights” this Friday.
Are the CDU and CSU blocking?
The news ticker.
Corona law of the traffic light in the Federal Council:
The second constitutional body must approve this Friday.
Bavaria's Markus Söder (CSU) and NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) are sharply criticized (
see first report from November 18
).
The
news ticker for the Federal Council vote on the Corona Infection Protection Act
is updated regularly.
Munich / Berlin - Germany faces the next anxious weeks in the coronavirus pandemic *, and again before Christmas and the (actually) reflective time.
Like 2020. Exploding corona infection numbers and sometimes dramatic reports from hospitals * are not only causing concern for politicians.
A campaign with booster vaccinations * should break the fourth corona wave now - at best.
This Thursday (November 18), the Prime Ministers and the Federal Government agreed on uniform corona rules * in the federal-state conference.
The framework for this is the new Corona Infection Protection Act, which the German Bundestag passed in the afternoon - against criticism from the ranks of the (future opposition) Union.
Corona law of the "traffic light" in the Federal Council: Do the CDU / CSU-led countries agree?
And so this Friday all eyes are on the CDU and CSU when it comes to the Federal Council, whether the Union-led federal states (North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Hesse, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Saarland) the bill of the expected traffic light - Agree to the coalition of the SPD, Greens and FDP in the second constitutional chamber.
A sure-fire success?
Not at all.
Most recently, the new Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrik Wüst (CDU), even threatened a blockade in the Federal Council.
On Thursday evening he sounded much more defensive in this regard.
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With the tightened version of the Infection Protection Act, "we will be able to approve tomorrow in the Federal Council," said the Laschet successor.
Nonetheless, Wüst again criticized: “We would have liked to have had a bigger toolbox,” he said, referring to columns of ambulances, such as those seen in Bavaria, for example: that in view of such images, “the pubs are still busy.
That's something that doesn't work, ”he said.
To classify: A closure of the catering is not provided for in the new measures.
Corona law of the "traffic light" in the Federal Council: criticism from Markus Söder (CSU) and Hendrik Wüst (CDU)
Markus Söder (CSU) also made an initial announcement.
Bavaria will “definitely” agree to the law in the Federal Council, the Franconian also said on ZDF: “And I have the impression that the other Union countries too.
We have no time to lose. ”Nevertheless, Söder also confirmed that the“ traffic light ”measures did not go far enough for him.
Which leads to another heated debate on Friday.
Is the Corona law coming through the Federal Council? We'll keep you up to date here in the news ticker.
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