Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz and the prime ministers meet on Tuesday. It shouldn’t be an MPK, but the lockdown could still be an issue.
- The next Prime Minister’s Conference is actually not scheduled for December 9th.
- Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz and the prime ministers of the federal states want to meet on Tuesday at 1 p.m., as has now become known (see first report).
- The first prime ministers expressed their opinion in the run-up to the meeting and were open to compulsory vaccination (Update from November 29th, 9:00 p.m.).
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Update from November 29th, 10:30 p.m .: Before the prime ministers of the federal states meet with Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz on Tuesday to discuss the Corona timetable, the politicians will initially be excited about Karlsruhe. Because around 9:30 a.m., the Federal Constitutional Court announced its decisions on the constitutionality of the federal emergency brake. The decision of the constitution guardians could then help the traffic light government to define the legal scope for action for the fourth wave.
Corona summit: Dreyer open to compulsory vaccination and against major events
Update from November 29th, 9 p.m .: Malu Dreyer (SPD), the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, has spoken out in favor of stronger regulation of major events with a view to the upcoming meeting of the federal and state governments on Tuesday. “I am very clear that the number of major events has to be capped,” she said on Monday at a meeting with the Hessian SPD in Wiesbaden. Above all, football stadiums filled to the brim are “psychologically not communicable,” argued the regional director.
Dreyer also no longer rules out a general vaccination requirement in Germany. “I see the surveys and the population is much more open to them than at the beginning,” explains the 60-year-old. It is therefore time to start the discussion about the introduction of compulsory vaccinations. Schleswig-Holstein’s Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) had previously spoken out openly about a general vaccination requirement (see update from November 29th, 6:10 p.m.).
Corona summit: Prime Minister Günther calls for stronger restrictions for unvaccinated people
Update from November 29th, 6:10 pm: The Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther (CDU), spoke out against uniform federal measures to contain the fourth corona wave before the corona summit of the federal and state governments. “Of course, in a district in Bavaria, where the incidence is 1300, you have to react differently than in a district in Schleswig-Holstein, where the incidence is 90,” said the head of the state in Kiel on Monday. In Günther’s state, the 7-day incidence is currently 151.3 – lower than in any other state.
Instead, the CDU politician calls for further restrictions on contact options for unvaccinated people. “I think that unvaccinated people shouldn’t meet at all during these times in order not to spread the virus,” said the 48-year-old. In addition, the Prime Minister spoke out in favor of compulsory vaccination. This is necessary to find a sensible way out of the pandemic.
Corona summit on Tuesday: Lauterbach calls for the closure of “leisure-like events”
Update from November 29th, 4:30 p.m .: The traffic light coalition is to announce new corona measures this week. The health expert Karl Lauterbach (SPD) announced on Monday in an interview with the television station Phoenix at. The measures currently in force would not be sufficient to effectively contain the infection rate in Germany, according to Lauterbach. According to Lauterbach, the resolutions have not yet been finalized, but he considers the closure of “bars, clubs, discos and similar ‘leisure-like’ events” to be inevitable. Current model calculations would show that this measure is effective, the SPD health expert explained the background to his assessment. In addition, he thinks it makes sense to wear a mask in schools. Unvaccinated people also have to be prepared for further restrictions: “With unvaccinated people, we also need contact restrictions in private,” added the expert on Twitter.
First report: Berlin – The next Prime Minister’s Conference is not scheduled for December 9th. It has now been announced that Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz and the prime ministers of the federal states will meet on Tuesday at 1 p.m. That reports Welt.de citing several independent sources.
Corona summit tomorrow: Merkel and Scholz meet country leaders
The meeting should therefore not be a conference of prime ministers. Nevertheless, one meets in the same group of personnel – by telephone.
The background to the meeting is therefore the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on the federal emergency brake, which is expected tomorrow. Germany’s top judges will give politicians important information about the constitutional possibilities and limits of pandemic policy.
The topic of the summit discussion should therefore also be the current Corona * situation and the new Corona crisis team. In this respect, a general lockdown or at least further tightening of the rules could be discussed.
According to Welt.de 2G-Plus rules for events, the general closure of clubs and discos and capacity limits for Bundesliga soccer games are to be discussed explicitly.
Lockdown decision at Corona summit on Tuesday?
Angela Merkel criticized last week that the new law of the traffic light parties would not be enough to get the corona situation under control. Since then, there has been discussion about a general lockdown for those who have been vaccinated and recovered as well as compulsory vaccination, as Austria has now introduced.
Within the traffic light * parties, the FDP is considered to be the biggest opponent of strict corona measures. But in view of the current number of infections, Christian Lindner’s party could also have rethought. In the ARD program “Berlin direkt”, the party leader said that a significant reduction in contacts was needed, even if he was still critical of curfews. SPD co-leader Saskia Esken was meanwhile convinced that the FDP would support stricter measures on the occasion of the rapidly increasing numbers. (rjs) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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