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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The SPD parliamentary group leader Andreas Stoch has little understanding for the relaxed corona rules proposed by the federal states for the Christmas holidays.
"The virus does not take a Christmas vacation, which is why our caution cannot take a Christmas vacation," said Stoch on Tuesday of the dpa.
With a view to the numbers and the development, it is understandable for everyone that the restrictions cannot yet be relaxed.
The debate about Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations go "completely past reality," said the Social Democrat.
Many people have been on short-time work since the spring, there are no employment opportunities in the culture or the events industry, doctors and nurses are fighting the pandemic in the clinics, said Stoch.
"It's a mockery to pretend to all these people that the biggest problem is the number of their Christmas guests or the question of whether or not you can throw firecrackers on December 31st."
The prime ministers had previously agreed on uniform contact rules for Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Between December 23 and January 1, meetings of a household with non-household family members or people from outside the household up to a maximum of ten people can be made possible, according to one of the federal states' draft resolutions for consultations with Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU) on this Wednesday - that would be twice as many as on other days.
Children up to the age of 14 should be exempt from this.
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In principle, the prime ministers also call on people to go into self-quarantine at home for several days if possible before the Christmas holidays.
On Tuesday afternoon, the head of the chancellery, Helge Braun (CDU), wanted to confer with the state chancellors of the federal states.
Before the consultations with Merkel on Wednesday, some things could also be changed.