Status: 11/28/2021 9:32 p.m.
The future traffic light coalition wants to set up a corona crisis team – and that should happen in the coming week, as FDP boss Lindner said. Major General Carsten Breuer is apparently in discussion for the management.
The future traffic light coalition is planning to set up a Corona crisis team – and this could start working in the next few days and thus before the government takes office. SPD leader Saskia Esken wrote on Twitter that the staff would be set up “shortly”. FDP boss Christian Lindner said on the ZDF program “Berlin direkt”: “There will be a crisis team for this next week. A German general will be at the top.”
According to a report in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, Major General Carsten Breuer is in discussion for the management of the staff. The 56-year-old is the commander of the Bundeswehr Territorial Tasks Command, which is responsible for domestic operations by the armed forces.
Lindner for contact restrictions
The future government partners SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed to set up a permanent federal-state crisis team. Lindner emphasized that one had to move from talking to decisive action. Better logistics for vaccination are necessary, for example. The finance minister-designate also demanded a significant reduction in contacts. In view of the pandemic, he was disturbed by images of full football stadiums. “Such leisure events cannot take place at this point in time in this dimension,” said the FDP boss. Lindner viewed curfews with skepticism. They would have a very high social price with no clearly proven benefit.
A decision by the Federal Constitutional Court on constitutional complaints against the federal corona emergency brake from the spring is expected on Tuesday. Lindner emphasized that one would evaluate very carefully what was compatible with the Basic Law. The presumably new Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) emphasized at the weekend with a view to combating corona that there was nothing that was not taken into account.
Mirror against full football stadiums
The designated Federal Family Minister Anne Spiegel (Greens) also campaigned for more contact restrictions. “In my opinion, the current measures that we have taken are not sufficient to actually reduce the number of infections,” said Spiegel in the “report from Berlin”. With a view to full football stadiums, like Lindner, she emphasized that major events “in this form” should no longer be carried out.