In December, a critical article in “Welt” Markus Söder (CSU) convicted the spread of false incidence figures: In order to push the buck to unvaccinated people, as is so often the case, Bavaria’s Prime Minister referred to incidence values according to which the number of cases among unvaccinated people should be many times higher than among vaccinated people. However: The responsible authority included every corona case in which the vaccination status was unknown in the incidence of the unvaccinated. FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki found clear words for this again – and recommended Söder to resign.
Compared to the “Welt am Sonntag” he said on Friday:
Either Markus Söder wanted to paint a crooked picture of the risk of infection from unvaccinated people and thus officially stigmatize a group of people – or he has no control over his business. Both the one and the other are sufficient reasons to resign.
For Kubicki it is clear:
Markus Söder has obviously deceived the public with the numbers about the vaccination status of unvaccinated and vaccinated people. It does not matter for the assessment of the facts whether he did this consciously or unconsciously.
According to the FDP vice-president, anyone who spreads false reports in a crisis situation should “have the decency and take the necessary personal consequences to protect the office of prime minister from further damage”.
It is doubtful that Markus Söder will take this to heart. At the CSU there were clear words about these indignation: CSU general secretary Markus Blume called the resignation call “unfounded” and assumed Wolfgang Kubicki “constant verbal failures”, which would make him a burden for the House. At this point one can in fact only accuse Bavaria’s CSU prime minister of “unsubstantiated” allegations.
