Enlarge image
FDP leader Lindner: "I think it's proportionate"
Photo: John MacDougall / AFP
According to his own words, Christian Lindner wants to vote in favor of the general corona vaccination requirement in the Bundestag.
He was "disappointed with the low vaccination rate" in Germany, said the FDP boss on the channel "Bild Live".
When Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced that he would vote for mandatory vaccination, Lindner said: "I openly say that my direction is also that of mandatory vaccination."
Although compulsory vaccination is a "sharp sword," said Lindner.
"But I think it is proportionate." In his party there are also other considerations, added the Federal Finance Minister-designate.
Therefore, his position is "not a dramatic turnaround for the FDP."
Lindner had long spoken out against a general compulsory vaccination.
He had hoped for a vaccination rate of 85 percent and was "disappointed that the vaccination readiness is so low," he said on Thursday.
Scholz had announced this week that a legislative procedure for the general corona vaccination obligation would be initiated "promptly".
Every MP should be able to "vote according to his conscience".
In parts of the FDP involved in the future traffic light coalition, the project met with rejection.
The FDP health politician Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus told the broadcasters RTL and ntv on Wednesday that she could well imagine a facility-related vaccination requirement, but was "very skeptical" about the general vaccination requirement.
Fighting tax evasion as a "personal mission"
In the interview, Lindner also announced that it would make the fight against tax evasion and undeclared work a focus of its work. It was "a personal mission close to my heart," he said. Undeclared work and tax evasion harmed honest taxpayers. "That's why I want to make it my specialty to take action against it." Buying real estate with cash should be prohibited. And if you want to buy a property from abroad in Berlin in the future, for example, you have to prove that you can do this with taxed money.
In the coalition agreement presented last week, the traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP stated that they also want to combat money laundering with the ban on cash when buying real estate.
Commercial and private property buyers from abroad should prove that their money was previously taxed “for any property purchase in Germany”.
In the land register, a "summonsable address" is therefore mandatory in the event of a change.
The »beneficial owners« should be listed in a transparency register.
This should also »end the concealment of the real owners of real estate«, promise the coalition partners.
asa / AFP
