Monday 15th November 2021
After criticizing the SPD
Schwesig: “Brown shouldn’t sow discord”
The country chiefs and the chancellor want to discuss the corona situation on Thursday. Much too late, says Chancellor Braun, and accuses the SPD of “delaying tactics”. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Prime Minister Schwesig considers this to be an election campaign noise. Braun only wanted to make a name for himself for the CDU chairmanship.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s SPD Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig has assumed the head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, to have internal CDU career motives because he blames the SPD for the late completion of federal / state consultations on the corona situation. “Mr. Braun wants to run as CDU chairman. He can do that for me, but he shouldn’t use this candidacy to stir up displeasure with Corona, to sow discord,” said the social democrat in the ZDF broadcast ” Berlin direct “. “The prime ministers have always looked for a good solution across party lines. And I assume that it will stay that way.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of government of the federal states want to discuss measures against the dramatically escalated situation on Thursday. The invitation was received from the chairman of the conference of ministers presidents, the North Rhine-Westphalian Hendrik Wüst from the CDU. The Chancellor had long insisted on a meeting, despite the parallel coalition negotiations between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP. According to the executive minister of the Chancellery, Braun, it was up to the SPD that a meeting has not yet taken place. “I am extremely angry about the delaying tactics of Olaf Scholz and the SPD-led countries,” he told the “Welt am Sonntag”. “Their hesitation in calling a federal-state meeting has meant that we are now meeting very late.”
He reiterated his accusation on ZDF. “There was a request from several CDU-led countries, there was also a request from the Chancellor – and only now have we been able to make an appointment,” Braun said on the program. “We’ve actually been talking for three weeks about the need to exchange ideas between the federal and state governments. And it’s not just about the legislation that will take place next week in the German Bundestag, it’s about vaccination organization for booster vaccinations and many other things.”