Infection Protection Act: Members of the Bundestag Receive Thousands of Spam Emails Before Voting



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Ahead of the Bundestag’s vote on the Infection Protection Act on Wednesday, numerous parliamentarians received a flood of critical spam emails. CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt said before a meeting of the Union faction in the Bundestag that his office alone had received around 37,000 such emails on Tuesday morning.

The vast majority are identical to identical passages in the text. It cannot be clarified who is behind it. There are also calls to parliamentary offices, for example from the constituency, where people have received false information, Dobrindt said. He spoke of a “brutal abuse of the political debate on the networks with the use of deliberate disinformation.” So society should be polarized.

On Wednesday, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat want to adopt changes to the Infection Protection Act. This involves distance requirements, contact restrictions, mask requirements, store closures, and event bans. There have been several demonstrations in front of the Reichstag building and in the area, by opponents of the Crown restrictions, such as the so-called lateral thinkers and counter-protesters.

The police must clear the way to the Bundestag

Dobrindt said he was assuming that it would not be seen that there would be an occupation of the Reichstag steps similar to an earlier demonstration by opponents of the mask. It also assumes that the police will guarantee the deputies the accessibility of the Bundestag. It would be “a more than critical process if members of Parliament to vote in Parliament could not reach the House.”

The facts about the Civil Protection Law are not widespread among critics, and concern about the spread of false information on the Internet is high, said the CSU politician. A smart communication strategy is needed to counter this. When critics speak of an “enabling law”, however, it is a malicious lie.

50 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants: the limit value must be established in the law

The rights of parliament must not be weakened, but strengthened. With the “Enabling Act”, the National Socialists laid the groundwork for abolishing the separation of powers. Parliament in the Reichstag was thus effectively disconnected.

Supporters of the “lateral thinking” movement had started an online petition entitled “No to the basis of authorization” and asked the Bundestag not to approve the new version of the law. With changes in the existing law, for example, the limit value for severe corona measures of 50 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants will be anchored in the law.

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