Lindner is undecided on the question of mandatory vaccination
Created: 01/06/2022, 02:02 PM
Christian Lindner, Federal Chairman of the FDP, speaks at the party's Epiphany.
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FDP federal chief Christian Lindner is, in his own words, still undecided about a general vaccination requirement.
"I am no longer fundamentally against it," he said on Thursday on the sidelines of the traditional Epiphany meeting of the FDP in Stuttgart.
"But I have not made a positive decision either." For example, he is not yet familiar with the group proposals in the Bundestag.
Stuttgart - In addition, due to the development of the situation around the Omikron variant of the corona virus, a decision cannot be made at the moment.
“That's why it's good that we take a little more time,” said Lindner.
"For the fifth, for the Omikron wave, a general compulsory vaccination would not make a contribution either."
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The Bundestag is expected to decide this year in a free vote without parliamentary group discipline about a general obligation to vaccinate against corona.
Resistance is stirring within the FDP in the Bundestag.
The deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki and other FDP MPs had clearly spoken out against such an obligation in a draft proposal.
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