It runs like a red thread through the last year of the term of office of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (67, CDU)!
When it really matters, when citizens are in danger and need the help of their state, the federal government plans, decides and acts much too late.
►BILD shows how the always-too-late government failed decisively in the past twelve months.
Corona vaccine
While the British and Americans secured hundreds of millions of vaccine doses as early as the summer of 2020, Chancellor Health Minister Jens Spahn (41, CDU) forced the EU Commission to procure the vaccine.
►The result: Germany only had enough vaccine after months of delay. Millions of seniors remained unprotected for the entire Corona winter.
Flood warning
The flood of death in July killed almost 200 people in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.
The reason for the high number of victims is sometimes: Hundreds of thousands of people were warned by the state far too late, if at all – although the authorities received the warnings from the weather service in good time!
But: Disaster control chief Armin Schuster (60, CDU) enjoyed his vacation in the days before the flood. The Interior Ministry of Horst Seehofer (72, CSU) did not switch to crisis mode despite the warnings.
Kabul disaster
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (57) and US President Joe Biden (78) reacted last Friday to the (weeks-long) advance of the Taliban: They sent thousands of soldiers to Kabul to secure the rescue of compatriots and local workers.
And what about Chancellor Merkel? She watched as Defense Secretary Annegret did Kramp-Karrenbauer (59, CDU) and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (54, SPD) delayed the rescue mission with their quarrel about responsibilities. The Americans had to help evacuate the German embassy.
August Hanning (75), ex-chief of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is outraged. To BILD he said: “It was obviously not well prepared. It was hesitated far too long. “
Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki (69, FDP) criticizes that the serious mishaps remain without consequences: “If the principle of political responsibility is not to degenerate into a mere empty phrase, one has to step back in the event of major mistakes or widespread failure.” the “fairness of government action”.
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