Ramelow: FDP wants to assert itself in Corona policy

Created: 03/17/2022, 18:18

Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke), Prime Minister of Thuringia, in the state parliament.

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Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) has criticized the Corona policy of the traffic light coalition in the federal government.

"At the moment I have the feeling that one party wants to assert itself - and that's the FDP," said Ramelow on Thursday after a switch from the federal and state governments.

In the past two years, there have also been arguments at the prime ministers' conference.

Erfurt - But it was a community of responsibility and decisions were made across party lines.

"It was a tougher fight today," said Ramelow.

Since every federal state now has to go back into a negotiation process about the Corona measures after April 2nd, one accepts that there could be very different maxims for action in the federal states, according to the Prime Minister.

According to Ramelow, all 16 federal states submitted minutes to the Prime Ministers' Conference in which they expressed their protest against the federal government's actions.

Thuringia put it on the record that they were criticizing “the lack of willingness between the federal and state governments to come to binding decisions on how to proceed in the fight against the Covid pandemic”.

In addition, the Free State accuses the federal government of insufficient participation by the states.

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Thuringia also complained about the changes in the Infection Protection Act.

"It is not appropriate to fundamentally restrict the possible measures to combat the pandemic, despite increasing infection rates and hospitalizations," says the note in the minutes.

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