Corona vaccination requirement: At least three different applications in the Bundestag - tendency is consolidating
Created: 12/23/2021, 5:09 PM
From: Bedrettin Bölükbasi
The compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus has been hotly debated for several months.
A difficult decision-making process in the Bundestag approaches in the new year.
Berlin / Munich - The new traffic light federal government made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP is increasingly relying on vaccination in the fight against the corona pandemic and is setting ambitious targets for vaccination quotas.
“Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate” is the goal, emphasized Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) once again.
In the midst of the critical pandemic situation, discussions about a general vaccination requirement have been going on for months.
As it stands, this debate will keep Germany busy in the new year as well.
As the
AFP
news
agency
reported, citing parliamentary groups, there are at least three different votes on the compulsory vaccination from the parliamentary groups for the next year - both from supporters and opponents of the possible regulation.
Compulsory vaccination debate in the Bundestag: three votes from supporters and opponents
The crucial difference between the requests of the proponents of mandatory vaccination is the age from which the mandatory vaccination should take effect.
There are different ideas at this point.
While one application advocates the introduction of mandatory vaccination for everyone over the age of 18, a second application advocates mandatory vaccination for all people over 60.
According to the Rheinische Post
, the representatives behind the motions followed the
recommendations of the Ethics Council.
In a statement, 20 of 24 council members had advocated compulsory vaccination, but seven of them defended compulsory vaccination only for particularly vulnerable groups, such as those over 60 years of age.
A third application on the subject of mandatory vaccinations has been known for a long time: It was drawn up by a group around the FDP politician and Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki, which rejects mandatory vaccination.
He could "understand" the arguments for compulsory vaccination, but did not share them, he said.
Apparently, 31 FDP MPs have so far joined the vote against the compulsory vaccination initiated by Kubicki.
Vaccination is supported more and more: Klingbeil admits mistakes - Giffey says "logical conclusion"
However, more and more parliamentarians support a general vaccination requirement.
The support for the introduction of compulsory vaccination is cross-party.
On Wednesday
(December 22nd)
, North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU
)
stressed that mandatory vaccinations were "essential".
Wüst, who is also chairman of the federal-state summit, told the ARD that without a vaccination requirement, you “get back into the loop of loosening and lockdown”.
Support came from SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil. At the same time, the Social Democrat justified why he had not previously assumed compulsory vaccinations and had not endorsed it. He told the newspapers of the
editorial network Germany
that he had previously believed that "many more people will be vaccinated than is actually the case to date". He therefore said "always very convinced" that there would be no compulsory vaccination. "That was a mistake," admitted Klingbeil.
Franziska Giffey (SPD), who has just been elected mayor of Berlin, described the compulsory vaccination as a "logical conclusion". "If we come to a point where we are concerned that the entire health protection of the population - including the maintenance of critical infrastructure - is not guaranteed, then we have to consider this obligation", she added in Semder ntv on.
The parliamentary manager of the Greens in the Bundestag, Irene Mihalic, called on the members of the Bundestag to quickly get the general corona vaccination in place.
She called for quick action by the Bundestag in view of the significantly more contagious Omikron variant.
“From my point of view, it cannot be about whether, but only about how a mandatory vaccination is required,” she told the
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
.
The parliamentary process must be based on this, said Mihalic.
(bb with material from AFP)