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According to a recent Forsa survey, Peter Tschentscher (SPD), Daniel Günther (CDU), Markus Söder (CSU) are the most popular prime ministers in the Corona crisis.

Their approval ratings are impressive at 75, 74 and 72 percent, significantly higher than at the beginning of the pandemic.

Her colleagues were also able to increase their values.

Even taillight Michael Müller (SPD) from Berlin made significant gains.

49 percent mean a plus of 22 points compared to the pre-Corona times.

In this respect, all 16 state heads of government have reason to be self-confident.

You will find it useful in the coming weeks.

Especially since they don't really agree with each other either.

With the step-by-step plan adopted on Wednesday evening for the gradual lifting of the partial lockdown that has been in effect since November, the majority of the heads of government willing to open it prevailed against the Federal Chancellor, who advocated a more restrictive course.

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The departure from the incidence number 35 as a prerequisite for any opening step does not only mean a "change of perspective" in the fight against the pandemic, as North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) put it on Thursday.

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The setting of the almost breathtakingly wide opening frame of 50 to 100 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days - measured by the ideas of the more rigorous among the virologists - also means a considerable risk for the previously unchallenged heads of government:

You must now do everything to ensure that at the end of this long-awaited, now decided opening phase, you do not have to pull the "emergency brake" nationwide that Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has made a prerequisite for her consent to the change of perspective.

That would be an oath of disclosure for the federally organized corona policy.

The prime ministers are therefore taking a risk.

"87 percent experience a gradual improvement"

In a marathon meeting, the federal and state governments agreed to relax the corona.

Prime Minister Söder provides information here on how these are to be implemented in Bavaria.

Source: WORLD

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Stephan Weil (SPD), Lower Saxony's head of government, feels this first-hand on the first day after the prime minister's decision.

A positive corona case will be identified in his state chancellery on Thursday.

Because of this, on the advice of the responsible health department, Weil has to go into quarantine by next Monday.

The press conference at which he wanted to explain his approval of the opening plans and their precise implementation in his state has been canceled at short notice.

He is one of those prime ministers who on Wednesday decided in favor of easing and against sticking to the strict 35 incidence as a condition for any further opening step.

Daniel Günther (CDU) is one of them.

Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister was the first head of government to have been very resolute in favor of a step-by-step plan as a way out of lockdown.

Three weeks ago he already had corresponding ideas in his luggage.

Now he's there.

But even Günther can be noted this Thursday in the Kiel state parliament that he is not one hundred percent sure of his cause.

The Christian Democrat has announced that from March 8, Schleswig-Holstein will take all the opening steps that the state can take due to its seven-day incidence, which is just under 50, according to the decision of the Prime Minister's Conference.

At the same time, the head of the state urgently warns the Schleswig-Holsteiners against lulling themselves into safety.

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Opening steps did not mean that the country was "out of danger".

Rather, one is in a “not easy phase”, in which retailers in particular have to justify the “high level of trust” that this opening plan is showing them.

Tschentscher is skeptical about the opening plan

Otherwise, Günther would also get into considerable trouble with his Hamburg neighbor: First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) left no doubt on Thursday that he was extremely skeptical of the relaxation plans as a whole, but above all of the way Schleswig-Holstein is dealing with these new opportunities .

“I would have preferred 35”, Tschentscher admits frankly.

"It would have been safer to do the opening steps later."

Hamburg, where the seven-day incidence is just under 77, will not open retail stores on March 8, unlike Schleswig-Holstein, but will only allow a "Click and Meet" procedure.

Tschentscher now has to hope that “people don't go out” to go shopping in Kiel or Lübeck, for example.

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Two other prime ministers who, like Tschentscher, had called for a very strict pandemic course in the past, also communicated contrary on the day after the federal-state round and in this way showed how insecure the corona situation is despite or precisely because of the opening plan Still is: While Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder announced in a tidy tone "gradual improvements for 87 percent of the citizens in Bavaria" because 76 of his districts and cities had fallen below the incidence of 100, the Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) gave the warning.

In a video message, the 43-year-old turned directly to his population to tell them bluntly: Actually, the agreed opening step is for him from an incidence of "too high";

one is taking a “risk”, he would have preferred a 35 incidence limit as a limit.

Hans spoke of "long-term damage" and "severe disease courses" that still cannot be ruled out.

Nevertheless, he implements the agreed measures just like his Bavarian counterpart, yes even more:

The Saarland is even a little further ahead.

As in Rhineland-Palatinate, retailers there have been able to receive customers again since Monday if they register beforehand and disclose their contact details.

Bavaria and most of the other federal states, on the other hand, will not allow “Click and Meet” appointment shopping until next week.

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The different tonality is likely to be a result of the fundamental balancing that every politician currently has to make with himself - and which Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) frankly explained in his press conference.

Prime Minister Bouffier announces the concrete steps for Hessen

After the meeting of the Hessian Corona Cabinet, Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) informed about the newly decided measures.

See the press conference in Wiesbaden here.

Source: WORLD

The numbers are increasing, according to Bouffier, and "normally it would never occur to us to think about easing the situation in such a development".

But at the same time, a broad discussion about ways back to normal have started.

"There is a dilemma between increasing numbers and a huge pressure of expectations."

And that, so the message, you bow to, but only a little.

The 16 prime ministers will then have to bear the consequences - whether positive or negative - together.