Status: 14.03.2021 7:00 a.m.
The first so-called lockdown began a year ago. Since then, Lower Saxony has also been living in the field of tension between infection protection and the resulting restriction of basic rights.
The NDR interviewed six members of the parties represented in the Bundestag. In retrospect, the parliamentarians talk about the lockdown imposed on March 16, 2020. In the interviews, the politicians from Lower Saxony give an insight into how they assess the decision-making processes in the fight against pandemics to date and what consequences this has for German democracy in their view.
Opposition criticizes decision-making processes
Mathias Middelberg (CDU), Dennis Rohde (SPD), Jens Kestner (AfD), Ulla You (FDP), Victor Perli (Die Linke) and Sven-Christian Kindler (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) have their say. Above all, the opposition parties, the Greens, the Left and the AfD, criticize the fact that the Bundestag has not yet been included in the decisions to combat pandemics because the federal government and the federal states make decisions bypassing parliament at the level of the conference of prime ministers.
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