My best effort at a translation of that twitter thread:
Martin Rücker
The topic of aid for #MECFS sufferers is now finally the subject of party-political disputes. This is not good and not appropriate for this subject. A short analysis of what happened yesterday in the #Bundestag and how to evaluate the state of affairs.
Sepp Müller
The coalition parliamentary groups have just rejected our motion on #MECFS. I cannot put my incomprehension into words. This is about hundreds of thousands of affected people and you are doing party politics? @GrueneBundestag @fdpbt @spdbt We as @cducsubt continue to fight for those affected.
Martin Rücker
1. I find the fuss the opposition is making about the fact that their motion was rejected, a little artificial. This is parliamentary practice – which often does not do justice to the subject, but so far all government majorities have kept it that way. That is not however decisive.
2 The CDU/CSU has failed to recognize the issue and take action in its 16 years in government (partly including control of the Ministry of Health). Now, however, driving forces in the CDU/CSU have recognized - in my opinion sincerely - that there is a need for action.
3. had a conversation with @mueller_sepp a long time ago about this. My impression: even then, there were plenty of opportunities to criticise the traffic light [Coalition] / @Karl_Lauterbach strongly - for example, because promises of the Coalition agreement for #MECFS competence centers were never kept and nothing else happened either. However, the chance for a party-political advantage was not taken for a long time, because there was an attempt to come together intergroup. Whether the request for this before an agreement with traffic light [Coalition] factions was helpful? Difficult - but of course it is legitimate.
4 The application is not perfect and has some weaknesses (more on that in a moment), but picks up many important points from the point of view of those affected.
5 When now @stamm_fibich explains the refusal by the fact (
https://stamm-fibich.de/persoenliche-erklaerung...) that the request addresses points which the Federal Government cannot regulate at all, then that is shabby. For example DMP [Disease Management Programme] (never mind the fact that it would last years and least help people): Yes, it is not the federal government that decides on new DMPs - but in the past DMPs were probably introduced by decision of the Bundestag. The mandate goes to the G-BA [Federal Joint Committee of German public health agencies], but initially was a parliamentary decision - could theoretically have been decided by the Bundestag for #MECFS.
6 Apart from vague announcements for supposedly planned budgets, the Minister of Health simply has nothing to show so far, and the BMBF [Federal Ministry of Education and Research] does not really have much to show either.
7. in view of the situation of those affected and the cross-party relevance of this issue, all of this would have been cause for the traffic light coalition and the opposition to sit down together across party lines and prepare a joint initiative. It is a real failure on the part of the coalition not to have done this, while it has so far failed to come up with anything concrete compared to the Union's (opposition’s) proposal (for all its weaknesses).
8 We can only hope that no new escalation will now enter into party-political quarrels, and that everyone will get their act together and examine what is possible together + concretely. The Bundestag must be able to deal with such an issue on a cross-factional basis.
