The quarrel between the two may go into the last round.
(Photo: IMAGO/Christian Ender)
When the conflict comes to a head for the first time, cameras are there. Karl Lauterbach is traveling in Saxony and is being accompanied for a WDR documentary. The Federal Minister of Health is tense. The Infection Protection Act has to go through the cabinet the next day, otherwise the Corona rules will expire without replacement.
But the SPD politician Lauterbach is at odds with Justice Minister Marco Buschmann from the FDP: How strict should the rules be? Again and again you see Lauterbach on the phone, looking at the cell phone. In the end he won’t be able to assert himself.
That was in March. Things haven’t gotten any easier between Lauterbach and Buschmann since then. It’s the old conflict between Team Caution and Team Freedom in the pandemic. One fights for fundamental rights, the other against the virus. Now the dispute is entering its final round.
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