The member of the state parliament Florian von Brunn criticized “Corona manager” Markus Söder.
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Kempten / district – “The last Ash Wednesday seems to have been an eternity”, states the SPD member of the state parliament Florian von Brunn. At the time, no one thought that Markus Söder would rise in his role as a “Corona manager” and would be considered a preferred candidate for chancellor in some places. He also wanted to hang up crucifixes or to conquer space with Bavaria One. “But times are changing.”
Due to the corona, the SPD Allgäu-Bodensee has moved its Political Ash Wednesday to digital: A meeting via Zoom was also streamed on YouTube. Von Brunn made no secret of the fact that Ash Wednesday was already under the sign of the federal election campaign. The direction of the move is clear: “What we certainly don’t need is a new CSU member in Berlin”, there are already Seehofer and Scheuer. Because these are not the top performers in the corona crisis. “What has the CSU done against the nursing emergency?” Asks von Brunn to answer the question himself: “Nothing.” The referendum “Stop the nursing emergency” had been rejected by the CSU and the Free Voters before the pandemic began . That is exactly what would be needed: more staff, more money for municipal hospitals. “You just have to want it.”
Instead, there was chaos. People who are not allowed to sit on park benches, a mess at the test stations and at the borders – and statements like Hubert Aiwanger’s: “Strong beer festivals are the natural enemy of the coronavirus.” von Brunn: 90,000 mops had been bought. Nobody knows what happened to them. Excessive bills were also noticed in the procurement of masks. An “Amigo deal in the best CSU tradition,” said von Brunn. Corona has shown that education in Bavaria is not as good as is often claimed. You fail because of digitization. You stand “there without a laptop and without leather pants”.
SPD City Councilor Katharina Schrader confirmed by Brunn. “What is done in schools with pupils, teachers and parents is no longer on a cow skin.” Schools would find out too late what was going on the next day. The Internet was also reaching its limits, the connections and capacities were too bad, and things couldn’t go on like this. The Bundestag candidate Martin Holderied hung a picture of Willi Brandt on the wall especially for the digital Ash Wednesday to create the right setting. “It’s difficult,” he says, when the candidate for chancellor is not there. After all, he can’t just joke about Andreas Scheuer. The topics with which the parties want to go into the election campaign are not even on the agenda.
One of these topics could be the welfare state. According to Holderied, what this brings good can be seen in the crisis – from basic medical care to short-time work benefits. “If you want to preserve that, you have to do something about it,” says Holderied. There will be an opportunity for this soon. Because the course for changes is always set after a crisis. It is very clear that this would require investments.
But the SPD also wants to “get louder” when it comes to the issue of climate and environmental protection; the issue should not be left to the Greens alone. “Climate-neutral buses and trains by 2030” are on the agenda. “For the Allgäu, however, that means that a bus has to go first,” says Holderied. This also requires investments from Berlin. Katharina Schrader also sees public transport – in addition to affordable living space – as an important topic for Kempten. It is also clear across all parties that public transport must be expanded. “There has to be an offer in the evening too. Anyone who works in retail has to come home after the store closes, ”demands Schrader. The cable car is discussed again and again, but Schrader was optimistic that this topic was off the table. “We prefer to use them when we can go back up the mountain.”
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