The government will meet on Wednesday to assess the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not yet known whether new measures will be introduced and if so, which ones. If the government decides to take action, Prime Minister Xavier Bettel hopes that MPs will be able to vote on the new measures from Saturday, he said last weekend on Radio 100,7. If this is not possible, a reintroduction of the state of emergency will have to be discussed, according to Bettel.
For the president of the CSV parliamentary group, Martine Hansen, the declaration of a second state of emergency is out of the question.
Following an enquiry from RTL, the politician from the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) stated that there was no debate to be had about a state of emergency. She stressed that the Chamber of Deputies was "operational" and that, above all, the Prime Minister already decided last week in the Chamber of Deputies that "something will happen this week". Hansen thus thinks that the government was prepared and that it could have already presented a text to the MPs. According to Hansen, the current coronavirus wave could be compared to a tsunami that, despite coming with a warning beforehand, the government is doing nothing about. She stated that her party had long been asking for some sort of multi-level mechanism to be put in place, i.e. that measures should be decided according to the number of infected people as well as the number of beds occupied in hospitals.
The CSV-MP is also unhappy that her party's proposed 13-point plan for schools was rejected in the Chamber of Deputies.
Hansen added that it was now important for the government to ensure that the population complied with the new regulations.
The leader of the CSV parliamentary group is completely unaware of the measures that could be discussed by the State Council on Wednesday.
In regard to a potential return to a state of emergency, the leftist party (Déi Lénk) said in a statement published on Tuesday morning that it would constitute "a declaration of bankruptcy" on the part of the government, comparing the potential decision to "blackmailing the Chamber of Deputies".
