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Berlin (dpa) - Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder has announced the full support of his country and the CSU for the new version of the Infection Protection Act.
"He (the draft) is still being discussed and of course we as Bavaria as well as the CSU in the federal government will even be co-drivers that it will be decided," said the CSU boss on Sunday in the ARD broadcast "report from Berlin".
Söder justified the need to change the law with the fact that some federal states would not consistently implement the emergency brake in regions with incidences of more than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had repeatedly criticized this.
"The pandemic is not a regional question, but a national challenge," said Söder.
A nationwide framework is important for a successful fight.
He very much hoped that the opposition in the Bundestag would be ready to help speed up the legislative process.
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Söder is directly opposed to the rejection of his coalition partner in the Bavarian state government, the free voters who are not represented in the Bundestag.
Their party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger had previously told the “Passauer Neue Presse” that the Free Voters would not agree to a “transfer of power from Bavaria to Berlin”.
Aiwanger emphasized that the discussion on this was not yet over, not even in the coalition with the CSU under Söder.
"And I still hope for a reasonable result."
The shift in power from the federal states to Berlin is also interpreted as "putting the federal states and districts on a chain".
"We need solutions to problems, not torture fantasies."
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