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According to Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD), “at best a brief consultation” will take place on Monday between the federal government and the Prime Minister.

As chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK), Müller is responsible for coordinating the SPD and Union countries together with CSU leader Markus Söder as his deputy.

Recently, doubts had grown as to whether the MPK would even take place.

A postponement of the meeting planned for Monday is becoming more and more likely.

The heads of the government factions of the Union and SPD are also pressing for a broad debate in the Bundestag about the corona situation before the next federal-state round.

A government declaration could also be a suitable framework for discussing how to proceed in the fight against the pandemic, wrote the parliamentary group leaders Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU), Rolf Mützenich (SPD) and the CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt in a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU) and the chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK), Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD).

The letter is at the German Press Agency in Berlin.

At their most recent video link on March 22, the Prime Ministers and Merkel decided that the Chancellor and the heads of government of the federal states would consult again on April 12 in the light of the infection development.

According to information from the dpa from regional circles and other media, the planned deliberations may have been postponed to Wednesday.

The Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) also said on Thursday evening in the ZDF program "Maybritt Illner": "I assume it won't be on Monday."

"Would make our planning a lot easier"

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"It is important to the two government factions in the German Bundestag to discuss the status of the pandemic and possible conclusions from it in the Bundestag plenum before this conference," write the three heads of the government factions.

“A government statement or an agreed debate could be a suitable framework.” An agreed debate is a debate without a submission or a government statement as a subject for discussion.

Brinkhaus, Mützenich and Dobrindt write to Merkel and Müller: “We would be very grateful to you for short-term information on which day in the coming week you would ultimately like to place the federal-state conference.

This would make our planning a lot easier. "

The Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag made a push for more federal competencies on Thursday.

A good one and a half weeks ago, on March 28, Merkel accused the countries in a TV talk show of experimenting with easing despite the rampant third corona wave.

She was thinking about what to do now;

the federal government could take action if the states should not take the necessary measures.

An amendment to the Infection Protection Act has been under discussion since then, for example with the aim of making the emergency brake mandatory in areas with many infections.

Critics like the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach complain that this costs too much time in view of the daily increase in the number of infections.

And Merkel would also need the approval of the countries, as she also made clear before Easter.