Harsh criticism of Scholz's Corona policy - "Citizens no longer understand"

Created: 01/10/2022, 12:52 PM

By: Patrick Mayer

Olaf Scholz (SPD) and his traffic light government are guiding Germany through the Omikron wave of the corona pandemic.

But not everyone likes the way.

Munich / Berlin - You stand at a critical distance from the executive, it says in the political doctrine.

We are talking about the opposition, which in a parliamentary democracy monitors the work of the government and develops counter-proposals.

And so this time it was up to Dietmar Bartsch, the parliamentary leader of the Left, to criticize and question the corona policy * of the traffic light federal government made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP *.

Corona policy of the traffic light federal government: Clear criticism from Dietmar Bartsch (Die Linke)

 "With the resolutions, the fight against pandemics falls back into old, wrong patterns," said Bartsch to the

 on the resolutions of the Corona Summit (Bund-Länder-Round) * last Friday (January 10th).

Bartsch went on to say: “One must not override basic rights prophylactically.

This is a subjunctive policy for which the citizens no longer understand. ”The opposition politician criticized the fact that the hospitalization rate hardly played a role anymore.

Instead, politics narrowed its view to the incidences, which in his opinion said little about the burden on the health system in the case of the omicron variant *.

For the catering industry, the resolutions of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK) are a questionably hard blow.

In addition: Bodo Ramelow (Thuringia) is one of the 16 regional leaders from his party.

One must not override basic rights as a prophylactic measure.

Dietmar Bartsch (the left) on the corona policy

Bartsch also criticized the new Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD).

Too little is still being done for better pay and recovery of nurses, is his criticism.

“That is shameful.

500 euros more per month for each caregiver in Germany should have been decided today, "said the 63-year-old Hanseatic.

To classify: The new cabinet and thus Lauterbach have been in office for almost a month.

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The CDU and CSU had a completely different opinion on the results of the Corona summit.

The resolutions do not go far enough for her.

Group leader of the left in the Bundestag: Dietmar Bartsch.

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"I have my doubts whether we can get the Omikron wave under control with the measures we have decided," said parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) also to the 

"We are still ready to make the statement required by some federal states to resolve the epidemic situation of national scope in the Bundestag in order to provide further options for action at short notice. "

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