Even more wasted time: it borders on refusal to work

When it comes to assessing the situation, the federal government and the federal states are largely united: it is dramatic. But the finding does not encourage them to act immediately. They all meet, but they decide that they want to decide something soon. However, there has long been no time for such games.

A round of all 16 high-potential Prime Ministers sits together with Chancellor Merkel and Chancellor Scholz. But it is only decided that something could be decided in a few days. Seriously: what are they waiting for?

In addition, the whole thing is accompanied by a number of incantations about how incredibly dramatic the situation is and how much time is pressing. The ladies and gentlemen do not notice how much they contradict themselves. Time is of the essence, but politics is taking its time? That cannot be understood, that cannot be true.

The future Chancellor Olaf Scholz is becoming more and more of a mystery. In Sunday speeches he promises full-bodied “leadership”. But if something is needed, as in the round with the prime ministers – no result. Nothing prepared, the committee formally not quorate.

It is obvious what is needed at least: namely the possibility for the particularly affected federal states to also resort to those severe restrictions that the Federal Constitutional Court has just approved.

This does not have to result in a nationwide lockdown, after all, more than two thirds of people are well vaccinated. But what is needed is a signal of joint determination from the federal and state governments. 75 percent of citizens are waiting for it, they say in surveys. Instead, they are harassed with arguments and vanities on the part of the parties because each side wants to be right. One side is in government, the other is in opposition.

But there is no time for such games. The past few weeks have largely been wasted. And there is one thing that the past 18 months have taught us: Those who intervene too late and too little have to endure all the harder, stifle half the economy or close schools again. So seriously: What politics is doing right now borders on a refusal to work.

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