FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai has asked Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) to rethink the corona virus. "I expect the Minister of Health to initiate a new phase," said the FDP politician on Friday at the Liberals' traditional Epiphany rally in Stuttgart. The phase of state instruments and restrictions must end, now a phase of recommendations and personal responsibility must begin.

A civil rights party like the FDP must ask the question of proportionality, he said. When leading virologists say that the end of the pandemic has been reached, he no longer sees any legal basis for restrictions on freedom and fundamental rights.

Epiphany meeting of the FDP