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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - The CDU top candidate for the state election, Christian Baldauf, has spoken out in favor of coupling openings in lockdown more to tests than to the number of new corona infections.

"We can't close everything again now," he emphasized.

"We have to test, test, test."

Choirs should also be able to sing again after negative tests and outdoor catering should be able to reopen.

Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) announced that outdoor catering will be able to reopen from March 22nd, and that she will work with the Chancellor for a perspective for the hotel industry at the next video session between the country leaders.

She had actually already hoped for this from the last meeting.

She accused Baldauf of not having a clear plan in the pandemic and of invoking a new situation every day.

Dreyer promised further help to the companies suffering from the corona crisis.

With a hardship fund, each half financed by the federal and state governments, it is ensured that “companies that are affected also receive compensation in the end”.

The retail trade, which was opened on Monday after a month-long lockdown, may have to close again in some municipalities and districts from Monday and return to date shopping due to increasing corona infections.

The nationwide incidence had just exceeded the crucial value of 50 for the first time on Thursday (50.7).

If the nationwide incidence is above 50 on Friday and Saturday as well, the municipalities with 50 incidences would have to pull back on the easing.

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The State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Daniela Schmitt (FDP), responded with a view to the Federal Ministry of Economics that it was “shocking for companies that payments of the discounts have now been suspended”.

In the supplementary budget, the state provided targeted millions in aid for tourism and inner-city retail.

The leading candidate of the Free Voters, Joachim Streit, spoke out in favor of reopening all industries "that have a good hygiene concept" because the health system is now stable after the vaccinations of the particularly vulnerable (vulnerable) people.

He would never have closed the outdoor restaurants, the zoos and the holiday apartments anyway, stressed Streit.

In the debate about the mask affair of members of the Bundestag of the Union, the top candidates of the Greens and the Left spoke out in favor of a lobby register.

"Then you could show the citizens who has which additional income," said the left-wing politician Melanie Wery-Sims.

In response to Baldauf's objection that this already exists, the green top candidate Anne Spiegel said: “We don't have a lobby register in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The latest incidents have shown that this is long overdue. "

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Dreyer soon complained that he had allowed “one of the greatest scandals of all” in the case of promotions to ministries.

And the state government was guilty of breaching the constitution in the municipal financial equalization scheme.

"We take the judgment very seriously," replied Dreyer, who described the decision of the Koblenz judges in December as bitter.

"We will now completely rebuild the municipal financial equalization in accordance with the criteria of the Constitutional Court."

Dreyer accused the AfD top candidate Michael Frisch not to distance himself from right-wing extremist movements in his party.

"You represent a party that is right-wing extremist in many areas," said Dreyer.

"You always pretend you have nothing to do with it," criticized Dreyer.

"You're the boss of the place and you don't clean up.

They don't distance themselves either. "

The cabinet has been sitting next to the AfD parliamentary group in parliament for several years.

"We hear what is being said: this is racist, that is exclusionary, that is discriminatory," criticized Dreyer.

"This state of Rhineland-Palatinate lives from the fact that we are tolerant, that we are diverse and that we are colorful."

Frisch had previously accused Dreyer again of being responsible as Prime Minister for the corona deaths in old people's homes.

Soon he had interrupted him, referred to the death of his own father, and rejected the charge.

Politicians could not be held responsible for this, there was no blueprint for the situation.

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