The opposition factions of the FDP and the Left gave the black-green state government a bad report at the halfway point of the legislative period.

The left accused the coalition of major failings in the Corona policy in Wiesbaden on Monday.

The liberals criticized that black-green had neither launched flagship projects nor provided answers to major challenges such as digitization, demographic change, integration or sustainability.

The summer of 2020 was not used, for example, to make schools and daycare centers fit for autumn during the pandemic, said the left-wing parliamentary group leader Janine Wissler.

And this mistake is repeated this year.

For example, there is an urgent need to equip more schools with air filter systems.

"No future model for Hessen"

Left-Vice-parliamentary leader Jan Schalauske criticized that there were a lot of social problems in Hesse.

Despite the housing crisis, the state government persistently refuses to take effective action against the lack of affordable housing, the maddening of rents and displacement.

"Although Hesse is one of the richest federal states, the poverty rate is now above the national average." In addition, further rounds of cuts in government spending threatened, because Hesse wants to show a balanced budget again from 2024.

FDP parliamentary group leader René Rock and the parliamentary managing director Jürgen Lenders said the governing coalition was acting slowly and was not a future model for Hesse.

While the alliance of the CDU and the Greens is making Hessen small, the liberals want to make the state big and move it forward.

CDU and Greens: Our politics cannot be that wrong

The FDP parliamentary group introduced 23 bills, 168 motions, 696 minor questions and 96 report motions as well as urgent report motions in the 20th electoral period.

Many of these initiatives were constructive suggestions for dealing with the corona pandemic, explained the two FDP politicians.

It was about a compensation law for companies, a concept for protective measures in schools and an opening plan for them.

The parliamentary group chairmen of the CDU and the Greens, Ines Claus and Mathias Wagner, replied: "We can live well with this criticism." The governing coalition remains with the goal of bringing together different parts of society and shaping them with a common policy for the good of the country.