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Cologne (dpa / lnw) - The Deputy Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Joachim Stamp (FDP) has expressed sharp criticism of the new corona-related exit restrictions.
At a digital state party conference of the NRW-FDP, the FDP state chief spoke of "dangerous nonsense" in this context on Saturday in Cologne.
Stamp thanked the FDP parliamentary group for showing a “clear edge” with a constitutional complaint against a “shifting of the basic coordinates” of a liberal society.
"We reject a placebo policy that curtails people's basic rights with blanket curfews and will not achieve any success in fighting pandemics," said Stamp.
"As free democrats, we do not rely on locking people up."
Instead, the FDP is relying on contact restrictions, a high vaccination rate and many corona tests.
The 50-year-old NRW family minister wanted to stand for re-election as party leader of the largest German FDP state association, which he has led since November 2017.
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