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Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s prime minister decided massive new restrictions on Germany. Thuringia wants to question parliament first.
According to Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left), Thuringia will not take a special route to contain the corona pandemic in November. “There is no rejection from Thuringia,” Ramelow said Wednesday night in Erfurt after the federal and state video conference. Despite a note in the Thuringia Act, he supports the resolutions of the heads of government with Chancellor Angela Merkel. He announced that he would send it to the Thuringian state parliament and its red-red-green cabinet for confirmation.
The Thuringian head of government suggested advancing an extraordinary session of parliament to this Friday, which had been scheduled for November 3 at the request of the CDU. It is still open if that will be successful.
In the summit resolutions on the Corona crisis, the state had signaled a protocol note. He said that the country only “supports those measures that are appropriate and proportionate to effectively contain the infection rate through scientific knowledge.”
Thuringia hopes that the Bundestag will determine an acute national health emergency, which justifies the resolutions passed by the Conference of Prime Ministers (MPK). The “Thüringer Allgemeine” (online edition) had previously reported.
Ramelow calls for federal government support for those affected
Ramelow had announced Tuesday that he would not agree to another shutdown of public life by regulation. Ramelow said late Wednesday that he made this statement under the impression that Foreign Ministry documents were missing until shortly before the conference.
In view of the dynamism of new corona infections, which are now also occurring in Thuringia, he recommends that the state parliament support the drastic cuts. However, he expects the federal government to pay compensation to traders and businesses that suffer from this economic disadvantage.
On Wednesday afternoon, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the prime ministers of the federal states decided on massive new restrictions on public life in a video conference. Read more about it here. The federal and state governments want to control the growing number of corona infections.
