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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) has defended the lack of an automatic emergency brake for corona easing in the state's regulation against growing criticism.

"It's a storm in a glass of water," said Woidke on Tuesday in Potsdam.

"We are taking a balanced path that takes various aspects into account and is based on the MPK framework agreement of March 3rd."

At the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK), the federal and state governments decided that the previous corona rules would come into effect again before the most recent easing if the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants rises above 100 within a week.

Woidke said that if the seven-day incidence nationwide persistently approaches 100, the state government will decide on concrete steps in the event that the value is exceeded on three consecutive days.

"This is also legally justified, because hard restrictions on fundamental rights through another hard lockdown must not, in our opinion, take place automatically, but require an appropriate and up-to-date assessment."

The districts and urban districts are also generally asked to take additional steps to contain them, especially when the value of 100 is reached.

If a value of 200 is broken over three days, at least the easing since this Monday would automatically be reversed.

Left faction leader Sebastian Walter does not consider this to be an emergency brake.

"If it is supposed to be an emergency brake, then (...) I can only hope that with an incidence of 200 all the airbags really work and I don't see the airbags at the moment," said Walter.

"This is absolute chaos that the state government has created here."

In contrast, the leader of the Free Voters parliamentary group, Péter Vida, said: "We welcome the fact that the state government of Brandenburg apparently wants to proceed a little more generously here than the national average."

That is also good in view of the economic and psychological stress.

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CDU parliamentary group leader Jan Redmann defended the existing regulation like Woidke and spoke of a misunderstanding.

"If the incidence in Brandenburg (...) approaches the 100s again, then of course we in Brandenburg will have to take a very close look at it and also have to tighten it," he said.

"What we only turned against is automatism."

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