Pritzwalk / Potsdam (dpa / bb) – Figure skater Katarina Witt met with her criticism of the corona lockdown and the consequences of Brandenburg’s SPD deputy chief Katrin Lange. “Your observation that helplessness, indignation and, in some cases, anger are spreading, is accurate,” wrote Lange on Facebook, responding to a report in the “Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten”.
“When Ms. Witt writes that she has” serious thoughts and worries “, then she speaks for many who feel the same way,” said Lange. The “small Brandenburg medium-sized companies had felt really solid ground under their feet for the first time in the last decade and the pandemic is now threatening to question a lot of it existentially”.
Witt, who runs a sports studio in Potsdam, claims to be struggling with the corona lockdown. “Small and medium-sized enterprises, retail, self-employed people, artists, so many industries have got into extreme difficulties since March 2020 and the financial, state aid either does not come in at all or only in droplets,” she wrote a few days ago on Facebook. In doing so, she indirectly criticized Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who is the SPD’s direct candidate for the Potsdam constituency.
“The constantly recurring slogans of politics and the never-ending mantra:” We are all in the same boat and we have to hold out together! “, Wrote Witt, and urged politicians and decision-makers to give up diets and income out of solidarity. She also sees unequal treatment because of the opening up of certain industries such as therapeutic training.
Lange, who is Finance Minister in Brandenburg, does not consider waiving payment as a solution in itself. “I think it’s okay that I get paid for my daily work,” she wrote. But she agreed with Witt: “What Ms. Witt is actually addressing here, in my opinion, is the erroneous impression that in the midst of the pandemic we are somehow all in the same boat, while the truth is that the material and social impact is very different. And She is absolutely right about that too. “
The deputy SPD federal chairman Klara Geywitz wrote on Facebook in response to Lange and Witt: “After the gut feeling comes the question of how do we finance the corona crisis, what will a sustainable tax reform look like and what will happen to the debt brake.”
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