Kubicki finds Angela Merkel’s statement “outrageous”

FDP Vice Kubicki criticizes the Chancellor and calls a number of measures “not plausible”. Some politicians see the debate on easing during the corona pandemic as positive.

The deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki has Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) criticized for its stance in the debate on further easing of corona restrictions. “What bothers me and what I find outrageous is that, as Federal Chancellor, she declares that there shouldn’t be any discussions about how to loosen things up,” said Kubicki on Tuesday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”. Discussions are a “fundamental right of everyone”.

In addition, Kubicki emphasized that the “competence to order or abolish restrictive measures” does not lie with the federal government, but with the federal states: “In case of doubt, that will be decided by the local governments, not the federal chancellor.”

Wolfgang Kubicki: “At the moment, a number of measures do not seem plausible to me.” (Source: rtn, ute strait / dpa)

FDP: Regulations must be coherent

Social distance is the central means of defense against the corona virus. But the corresponding regulations should be “coherent in themselves” and “at the moment a series of measures seems to me not plausible,” said the FDP vice-president.

For example, it cannot be explained “why in areas where there are no infections at all, the churches must not be opened”. And “when we open stores up to 800 square meters, the question arises why we cannot open larger stores or restaurants where the distance rules are observed,” said Kubicki.

FDP leader Christian Lindner, for example, sees greater potential for opening up than Chancellor Angela Merkel had intended. “We have all become hygiene experts,” he says in the “Bild” report. People have been considerate and responsible with the situation. “That is why we can open up more than Ms Merkel currently thinks is possible.”

Secretary-General Teuteberg approves of the debate

Already on Monday morning, Merkel had expressed concern at a CDU Presidium conference on the current debates. She warned of “opening discussion orgies”. FDP general secretary Linda Teuteberg called this statement “remarkable”. After all, discussions were part of the normality of democracy, she said in Berlin. When politicians or citizens “think about sensible strategies for opening up, discuss the proportionality of violations of fundamental rights and the existential concerns that plague people, it deserves respect and not contempt”.

Union faction vice Carsten Linnemann said in the RTL / ntv- “early start”: “On the contrary: I think this country needs a debate about it.” The questions of easing are in the room and should therefore also be discussed publicly, said the CDU politician. That is part of democracy and that is the only way to build trust in politics.

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