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Hubert Aiwanger is Bavaria's Deputy Prime Minister
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The parliamentary group of free voters in the Bavarian state parliament is closed in quarantine.
This was confirmed by the chairman of the parliamentary group in the district administrator, Florian Streibl.
The three ministers, including the deputy prime minister and economics minister Hubert Aiwanger, are also affected.
There were therefore a total of eleven positive corona tests before a closed meeting planned for Wednesday.
"If we had only done rapid tests, they would all be negative"
Before the meeting, the group leaders had prescribed a negative PCR test for all participants as a prerequisite for participation.
The exam was canceled on Tuesday evening.
"If we had just done quick tests, as is usual in the state parliament or other parliamentary groups, all would be negative," said parliamentary group manager Fabian Mehring to the "Münchner Merkur".
One was particularly careful.
The entire parliamentary group now has to be quarantined because shortly before the tests there was a meeting of almost all MPs and the three government members Hubert Aiwanger, Michael Piazolo and Thorsten Glauber.
Aiwanger was calm to Bayerischer Rundfunk: "Well, I've got enough office work," he said.
His test was "thank God negative".
In coordination with the state parliament office, all MPs and employees would be tested again in the next few days, said Streibl.
"At the moment, no one can estimate how long the isolation of the affected colleagues who have tested positive will last."