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Munich (dpa) - The Bavarian Trade Association (HDE) has criticized the renewed extension of the lockdown as "a declaration of bankruptcy by politics" and wants to go to court against it.
A bookseller or florist cannot be explained, "why you can have a new perm for two hours in the hairdressing salon, but the dealers have to remain closed because of the allegedly high risk of infection," said HDE spokesman Bernd Ohlmann on Thursday.
The trade association will have these "absurd regulations judicially reviewed" and also call on its members to sue.
"We don't want any extra sausage, just equal opportunities."
The lawsuit would be directed against the Free State of Bavaria.
The federal government and the federal states met for hours again, "in order to then simply extend the best-before date of the lockdown in a practiced manner," criticized the HDE.
The politicians had lowered the incidence value for loosening, which had been held up for months, from 50 to 35 and broke their promises.
This incidence value will only be attainable in a few months, because politicians have "terribly failed" to obtain vaccines.
The retail trade was "not only disappointed, but outraged by this unprecedented audacity," said Ohlmann.
An opening strategy is still not in sight.
"No retailer could run his business with such a lack of prospects and despondency."
The Bavarian Trade Association (HBE) represents the interests of 60,000 retail companies with 330,000 employees and an annual turnover of 67 billion euros.
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