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Since Easter Monday afternoon, Armin Laschet has wanted the hard lockdown, including an early decision-making round with Merkel.

And what about the state chancelleries in Munich and Stuttgart?

Silence, nothing but silence.

Are Markus Söder and Winfried Kretschmann completely amazed?

On the Wednesday before Easter, both of them called for a tougher nationwide approach against Corona in a joint letter.

Now Laschet joins the demand, intensifies it a bit, and suddenly Kretschmann and Söder find no microphone and no camera to be happy about.

Do you need bridging days to think?

The subject is familiar to both of them.

On March 27, Kretschmann had favored exactly what Laschet now wants - a short hard lockdown (“the best from a pandemic point of view”) including an early decision-making round.

At the same time, also at the end of March, Jens Spahn, Laschet's team partner in the fight for the CDU chairmanship, brought the idea of ​​temporarily shutting down public life.

Kretschmann's coalition partner Thomas Strobl (CDU) has been calling for a brief hard lockdown since autumn.

And so far, Söder has always been very quick - if possible the first - when it comes to strict precautionary measures.

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Is he sad that Laschet was faster this time?

Does Söder hope that Laschet, as a possible candidate for chancellor, has embarked on a path of no return with the advance?

That the Laschet bridge lockdown will turn into political doom because the liberal coalition partner in Düsseldorf finally rebels?

The FDP leadership in Berlin does not like it at all that the lockdown push comes from the most important government in which the Free Democrats are involved.

In his area of ​​responsibility, Laschet's deputy Joachim Stamp (FDP) is already consistently preventing the Corona emergency brake decided on March 23 in the Chancellery from taking effect prematurely.

He has also been silent about the bridge lockdown so far.

Corona politics is also party politics in the election year.

Watching applicants stumble for the Chancellorship is a reason for some to suddenly not be able to see, hear or speak for 24 hours or more.