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The "parliamentary support committee" planned by the Union and the SPD to advise on how to proceed in the corona pandemic has been rejected by all parties.
"The matter smells like a red herring knitted with a hot needle," said the first parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group, Marco Buschmann, on Tuesday in Berlin the German press agency.
“The question of how the pandemic will continue belongs in the plenary session of the German Bundestag.
This guarantees transparency and publicity. "
According to the ideas of the Union and the SPD, a “parliamentary support committee for the Covid-19 pandemic” is to be set up to give the Bundestag more opportunities to have a say in overcoming the corona crisis.
The body is to become a subcommittee of the health committee, consists of 21 members and involves external experts.
His subject areas will include the research and control of virus mutations as well as the production and procurement of vaccines or learning and teaching during the pandemic.
The Greens expressed a similar opinion in the Bundestag.
It is an "unsuitable diversionary maneuver," said Green parliamentary leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt of the German Press Agency in Berlin on Tuesday.
The decisive factor is that the federal government no longer makes important decisions “in its own subsidiary groups behind closed doors”.
"The Bundestag does not need a placebo committee, but has to regain its decision-making power." The plenum must be able to decide on the pandemic situation and a risk level plan to combat the pandemic.
The federal government should convene an interdisciplinary pandemic council, demanded Göring-Eckardt.
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