Populist party leader calls for German coronavirus pandemic inquiry
German populist politician Sahra Wagenknecht has repeated her call for an official inquiry into the country's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday's fifth anniversary of the first coronavirus lockdown, the leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) said the fact that there had been no review of the crisis at a federal level was a serious mistake.
She also said that it was wrong that there had been no compensation for the victims and no amnesty for penalties and fines imposed at the time.
"The lockdowns had devastating consequences for our country that can still be felt today," she said, and complained of "political pressure on dissenters" and the exclusion of the unvaccinated from society.
"The coronavirus policy is the most authoritarian chapter in the history of the federal republic so far," she claimed.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has also called on the future German government and the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, to address the coronavirus pandemic.
"I consider it essential that transparency be established so that we can win back as many people as possible who, during the pandemic, doubted democracy and its institutions," Steinmeier said on Friday.
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