The traffic light tip meets with Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the current Corona situation in Germany.
Update from November 23, 9:52 p.m.:
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach
commented
on the spontaneous traffic light visit to Angela Merkel. "If pressure is actually put on here, then that would be the pressure for the general lockdown," said the SPD health politician to the news broadcaster
Welt
. “And I don't know whether the Chancellor would now like to go this way and propose a general lockdown. In my opinion it is still too early. "
Lauterbach described the fact that the top representatives at Ampel interrupted their coalition negotiations on Tuesday afternoon (November 23) for a meeting with Chancellor Merkel who was still Chancellor Merkel as "nothing special". The traffic light is in constant communication with the current government, for example with Federal Health Minister Spahn or Chancellery Minister Helge Braun, but also with the Federal Chancellor.
Lauterbach ruled out that the visit was about compulsory vaccination - he was "very sure" of that.
Still, you have to start thinking about it.
"Personally, I am now a proponent of the general compulsory vaccination," said Karl Lauterbach in the
world
interview.
"In my opinion, we cannot make ends meet without a general vaccination requirement." However, it is not about the current dramatic corona numbers, but about long-term stabilization.
Corona lecture by Angela Merkel?
Ampel -spitze visiting the Chancellor at short notice
First report from November 23:
Berlin - top representatives of the planned traffic light coalition - SPD, Greens and FDP - will meet Angela Merkel in the Chancellery on Tuesday afternoon (November 23), apparently at short notice. According to
ntv
information, the Chancellor is advising Christian Lindner, Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock and Olaf Scholz about the current Corona situation. The day before, Merkel had classified the corona measures of the traffic light probes as inadequate.
“We have a highly dramatic situation.
What is valid now is not sufficient, ”Merkel was quoted on Monday from participants in the hybrid deliberations of the CDU board in Berlin.
Merkel was connected from the Chancellery.
She warned: “We have a situation that will surpass everything we have had before.” The 2G rule with access for vaccinated and convalescent people will no longer be sufficient.
Traffic light peak interrupts final coalition negotiations for Corona meeting with Angela Merkel
Merkel had already formulated something similar at the press conference after the last federal-state round a few days ago. Yesterday, Monday, the outgoing Chancellor said at the CDU deliberations that she had the impression that many people were not aware of how serious the situation was. Nonetheless, the outgoing federal government wants to stay out of upcoming major corona decisions, for example in matters of mandatory vaccination, according to participants yesterday.
The meeting of the traffic light leaders with Merkel comes as a surprise, especially since tomorrow, Wednesday, the possibly final “main negotiation round” of the future government should take place.
As
Bild
reports, the party leaders of the SPD, Greens and FDP have been sitting together since this morning in the Willy Brandt House for the decisive round of negotiations.
There were therefore Olaf Scholz, Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner.
Traffic light negotiations: Scholz, Habeck and Lindner with a “lightning visit” to Merkel
In the afternoon, the traffic light bosses are said to have interrupted their conversations in order to go to the Chancellery for a “lightning visit”.
"The only topic: how to deal with the corona crisis in the future!" It is probably the last details that the traffic light negotiators clarify with the executive chancellor.
Because: Last week the general secretaries announced that they would present a coalition agreement this week.
(jo / dpa)
