Lindner: Compulsory vaccination encroachment on the right to self-determination

Created: 01/06/2022, 1:17 PM

Christian Lindner, Federal Chairman of the FDP, speaks at the Epiphany meeting of the Free Democrats.

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Despite the Omikron variant, FDP party leader Christian Lindner calls for a course of moderate restrictions to be maintained in the corona pandemic.

"The protection of health is a great good, but the greatest good of our constitution is and remains freedom," said Lindner on Thursday in Stuttgart at the Epiphany meeting of the liberals.

He described compulsory vaccination as a sensitive encroachment on people's right to self-determination, which must rightly be decided without party lines.

Stuttgart - Lindner, who is also Federal Minister of Finance, said the course of the corona pandemic in the past few weeks was a confirmation of a measured approach to encroachments on fundamental rights.

The crisis strategy of the new federal government with 2G and 3G rules for hygiene protection, the reintroduction of free tests and a crisis team headed by a Bundeswehr general are showing results.

Germany has organized the most successful booster campaign for vaccinations in Europe in the past few weeks.

"With all of these measures we managed to cope with the fourth wave without overburdening our health system," said Lindner.

This is also the actual task of the measures.

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