A majority of the federal states in the Federal Council are in favor of the new version of the Infection Protection Act. After the union-led states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony, the green-black ruled Baden-Württemberg has now also announced its approval. Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) agreed with Vice-Prime Minister Thomas Strobl a yes to the law of the budding traffic light partners SPD, Greens and FDP in the federal government, said a government spokeswoman on Thursday evening for the German press agency in Stuttgart.
However like Bavaria, if you stick to the criticism that the law is not appropriate to the situation, even if improvements were made recently. That would be enough for at least 36 votes, the majority is 35. The prerequisite is that the SPD-led states of Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Rhineland-Palatinate agree.
The Union in particular had recently threatened not to support the law in the Bundesrat. The decision of the Bundestag on Thursday provides that the “Epidemic situation of national importance” expires on November 25th.