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Corona: Do the traffic lights have to be improved now? Vaccination debate is ongoing - SPD announces lockdown

2021-11-12T12:26:30.230Z


The SPD, Greens and FDP have presented their corona course for the coming months. But the vaccination requirement is still being debated. The news ticker.


The SPD, Greens and FDP have presented their corona course for the coming months.

But the vaccination requirement is still being debated.

The news ticker.

  • The traffic light parties SPD *, Greens * and FPD * want to conclude their coalition negotiations by the end of November.

  • The parties have already presented a Corona * timetable for the coming months.

    Meanwhile, at the center of the discussion: mandatory vaccination.

  • This news ticker is continuously updated.

Berlin - It is a tough first test for the designated traffic light coalition.

And that long before SPD politician Olaf Scholz * even set foot in the Federal Chancellery.

On Thursday, November 11th, the SPD, Greens and FDP launched their law for new corona measures.

Olaf Scholz gave his first near-chancellor speech * - and appeared noticeably cautious.

The traffic light parties are also discussing a possible corona vaccination requirement for certain professional groups - but opinions differ *.

Probably one will have to introduce a job group-specific vaccination requirement in the coming weeks, said the Green health politician Janosch Dahmen on Friday in Berlin.

He named nurses, doctors, cleaning and kitchen staff in clinics or care facilities.

Corona: Traffic light parties are discussing mandatory vaccination - lockdown is apparently not an issue

“This is a topic or a discussion that we cannot escape from.

We will lead them very openly in my parliamentary group, ”said the health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Sabine Dittmar.

You have to weigh up very carefully, she added, referring to the dangers of a possible brain drain.

It was said of the FDP that they would "naturally" face the discussion.

"But it is also important for us whether we can achieve that with milder means," said the health politician of the group, Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus.

The German Ethics Council recommended on Thursday that certain professional groups should be checked for compulsory vaccinations.

Generally speaking, the Liberals were open to readjustments.

"That will certainly be sharpened again," said FDP health politician Andrew Ullmann the Phoenix broadcaster.

"I think I am sure to say that we are also open to further good and law-abiding and proportionate measures." He also promised further efforts in terms of vaccinations.

"If we let it go like this now and wait to see what happens, Christmas will be difficult."

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Olaf Scholz at the lectern in the Bundestag.

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

The expected future government partners, the SPD, FDP and Greens, are discussing measures to accelerate vaccinations and so-called booster vaccinations in Germany this Friday against the background of the sharp rise in corona numbers.

Before the talks, Dittmar suggested that pharmacies could also take on booster vaccinations.

She referred to corresponding model projects that had already been carried out for flu vaccinations.

SPD, Greens and FDP: Lockdown is currently not an issue - trust in the population is waning in the corona crisis

Lockdown measures, as they are currently being discussed in neighboring Netherlands, are currently not an issue in Germany, according to the traffic light parties. "The lockdown is not up for debate in the discussions," said the health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Sabine Dittmar, on Friday in Berlin. In view of the vaccination quota, this would also be “difficult to enforce”, she added. 

Meanwhile, confidence in the coalitionists within the population is waning.

The majority of Germans have little confidence in the SPD, Greens and SPD when it comes to fighting the Corona * pandemic.

In the poll published on Friday by the Mannheim research group Wahlen for the ZDF “Politbarometer”, only 13 percent of those questioned named the SPD as competent on this point, the FDP only six percent and the Greens five percent.

The CDU / CSU performed slightly better, and was rated as competent by 25 percent.

(aka with dpa and AFP) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

List of rubric lists: © Kay Nietfeld / dpa

Source: merkur

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