Markus Söder urged his deputy Hubert Aiwanger to make a public statement as to why he does not want to be vaccinated yet.
Now he takes another stand.
Munich - "Maybe you will say something yourself". With this sentence, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU *) urged his deputy Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) to make a public statement after a cabinet meeting, why he does not want to be vaccinated yet *. He was apparently calm and said that vaccination is a personal decision. He doesn't want to build up public pressure.
In the aftermath of this statement,
SZ
asked
Aiwanger.
He tries not to discuss the issue on a personal, but on a political level.
"It must remain the freedom of choice for each individual," he said accordingly.
At the same time he gives a clear warning.
One should not divide society further by putting pressure on people who wait to vaccinate or who may not want to be vaccinated at all.
"You shouldn't push people too much, because then you just drive them into the arms of those who oppose vaccination," said the Minister of Economic Affairs.
After Söder's vaccination tease: Aiwanger does not see himself as an opponent of vaccinations
In his opinion, he is not the latter, i.e. an opponent of vaccinations.
When he was a child he “got the whole program” and when he was in the armed forces he wanted to be vaccinated against ticks.
The doctor whom Aiwanger consulted at the time advised against it with reference to the possible side effects.
“Vaccination is not like a helmet when riding a motorcycle or like a seat belt in a car.
Vaccination is a direct intervention in the body, "said Aiwanger according to the
SZ
.
People would feel very differently.
"What is a little spade for one person is a real intervention in the body for the other."
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Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger had to justify publicly after a request from Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder why he was not yet vaccinated.
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Hubert Aiwanger sees vaccination as "a question of political culture".
Caution is advised: "If we do not pay careful attention to them, we will end up in the debate that only vaccinated children and adolescents are allowed to attend classroom lessons and those who are not vaccinated have to make do with distance teaching from home." The corona pandemic * I've already exposed the citizens to enough pressure and coercion.
Free voters parliamentary group leader: "No prime minister has to intervene either"
His party, the Free Voters, also spoke in the debate.
Parliamentary group leader Florian Streibl, who incidentally is vaccinated himself, said, for example: "There is no compulsory vaccination with us." This applies not only to politicians, but also to every other person.
In his opinion, "no prime minister has any input either".
Nevertheless, he advises everyone to get themselves vaccinated.
The free voter representative and patient and care representative of the state government, Peter Bauer, can only join this appeal.
Also in relation to Aiwanger.
"I'm sticking to it, I call on everyone to get vaccinated," he said to the
SZ
.
“That applies to every citizen.” People should not see “considerations about their own health disconnected from the influence they have on their fellow human beings”.
However, he can not help pointing out the jostling of Markus Söder * against Aiwanger.
"My impression is that Söder presented Hubert Aiwanger there and wanted to show him too." Instead, the Prime Minister could have discussed the issue without a major appearance in the cabinet.
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