Dealing with the Corona crisis apparently causes violent arguments behind the scenes. A video call allegedly caused a scandal. The Zoff is not over yet.
Berlin / Dusseldorf – That dealing with the Corona crisis is controversial down to the highest level of government. However, a new report shows the level of irritability once again – and suggests once again that in the struggle for the course in the federal and state governments, not everyone always adheres to laboriously agreed agreements. Once again in focus: North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU).
Corona virus: hick-hack in protective measures – and a scandal in video calls?
Only had on Wednesday Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) together with Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and Hamburg’s Governing Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) presented an agreement on easing.
Since then, the federal states have nevertheless striven in astonishingly different directions. No wonder: Apparently it was before Video call from the federal government and country heads came to a scandal – reported about it of the mirror in its current edition.
Coronavirus: Zoff in the struggle for loosening – Merkel had to slow Laschet
According to the news magazine, the stumbling block was the planned one Opening for shops up to 800 square meters of retail space: Merkel actually preferred a limit of 400 square meters, Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz also wanted to open malls. The compromise halfway then calculated Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) questioned and an opening opened only on May 15 – to Laschet’s loud displeasure.
Laschet had warned that many of the shops affected would no longer be there – he expected the Minister for Economic Affairs to be more sensitive. Even despite the support of his antipode in the design of the corona measures, Markus Söder, Laschet continued to express his point of view with “angry gestures”, he writes mirror. Until the Chancellor finally intervened: “Armin, everyone can see how upset you are. Peter supports the compromise ”.
Corona in Germany: Laschet does not get his will – and goes on his own course
So Laschet apparently got his will on this question. In other questions, the round of top politicians slowed down always headed for loosening NRW state chief according to the report, sometimes harsh. So Söder had a push to Restart for services torpedoed – there was also no opening permit for furniture stores.
Laschet, however, does not seem to be particularly affected: He brought the furniture stores, at least in his country, back to business via the NRW special route – the candidate for the CDU chancellor candidacy once again publicly advocated the opening of the service on Sunday.
“If you open shops, you can also pray in churches,” said Laschet on Sunday on Deutschlandfunk. The fact that people are not allowed to meet for services is a massive restriction of fundamental rights, which must be justified every day anew.
Corona virus and politics: Laschet drums for opening – Greens criticize CDU “election campaign”
On the same day, Laschet also drummed on Twitter for a new start for other areas of life. This time he was considering schools. “Rise through education was the promise of more social justice. What does it mean to deny pupils school for weeks? ”Laschet asked rhetorically.
I hope that the CDU will quickly choose a new chairman. This election campaign at this time. This is really hard to bear in the long run.
– Erik Marquardt (@ErikMarquardt) April 19, 2020
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On the part of the Greens it put a hard counter. Of the MEP Erik Marquardt threw Laschet Election campaign for the CDU leadership of all things in the delicate field of combating pandemics. “I would like the CDU to quickly elect a new chairman,” he replied to Laschet’s post. “This election campaign at this time. It’s really hard to bear in the long run. ”
Laschet in the corona crisis: Altmaier warns of a political “chicken pile” – but voters judge differently
Serious allegations also came from the SPD. Derya Türk-Nachbauer, member of the Baden-Württemberg state executive of the Social Democrats, recalled the “responsibility” of politics. “The young people are worried about their fellow human beings, it has nothing to do with ‘refusal’ to do the school work,” she said.
A first one indirect order call delivered Altmaier on the weekend. “We must not run around like a pile of chickens and alternately outdo each other with tightening and loosening,” he warned in the Picture on Sunday. “If we keep our nerve now, we can avoid a second lockdown. That is why joint action by the federal and state governments is so important. “
However, with its opening rate, Laschet is as popular with Söder as Söder on the other side of the spectrum: in an infratest dimpa-Survey commissioned by WDR The citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia gave him a good report: 65 percent (plus eleven points compared to November 2019) of the respondents were satisfied with the political work of the Prime Minister – that CDU In total, eight percentage points rose to 40 percent in the Sunday question.
The first easing of the measures against the coronavirus pandemic will take effect on Monday, April 20. Chancellor Angela Merkel also sees risks – and attacks her colleagues exceptionally sharply on the phone – making her biggest concern clear.
fn (with material from dpa)
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