Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier will hold on Saturday in a televised address to the current Situation in the Corona of a pandemic. It is the first Time that a German President arrives in this Form to a current event, he usually keeps such speeches every year at Christmas.

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According to information from the Federal presidential office will broadcast the speech in ARD and ZDF, respectively, in the following the main news broadcasts in the evening. Steinmeier had called in the last days several times in video messages from citizens to cohesion and patience in the face of imposed restrictions in the Corona-crisis.

  • speech by Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Live Stream of ZDF (from approx. 19.18 PM)
  • speech by Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Live Stream of the ARD (from approx. 20.15 Uhr)
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majority of the German crisis management, satisfied

The majority of Germans according to a survey are satisfied with the current crisis management of the Federal government in the Corona-crisis. In a survey by the opinion research Institute YouGov on behalf of the German press Agency, 66 percent rated the Act of the black-and-red Cabinet, under the leadership of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in the crisis to be more positive. Two weeks ago, there were still 54 per cent. The share of the Dissatisfied has decreased in this period from 38 to 27 percent.

The Federal government has decided, together with the countries unprecedented measures to stop the spread of the Virus to contain. Next Wednesday to be advised of how it goes. The crisis management of the government is assessed according to the Yougov poll on party preferences across mostly positive, with one exception: The voters of AfD are to 52 per cent dissatisfied and only 45 per cent satisfied. But here, too, the approval of the government course is growing: two weeks Ago, 68 percent of the AfD voters were more likely to be dissatisfied and only 27% satisfied.

Union leader Ralph Brinkhaus praised the actions of Merkel’s. “Chancellor, when the weather is nice many can. You need people who are in crisis,” said the CDU politician of the Newspapers of the Funke media group (Saturday). Merkel jets safety and peace. And it would have to be in Corona, each candidate for Chancellor – measure regardless of party – let.

According to data from the Robert Koch Institute on Saturday morning, are recorded in Germany, in the meantime, 117.658 infections, 2544 deaths were registered in Covid-19 diseased people. The dark figure of unrecorded cases, according to the experts in Germany are much higher.

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