Traffic light plans: Bundestag debate continues - focus today on Habeck and Lauterbach
Created: 01/13/2022, 08:38 AM
From: Anna-Katharina Ahnefeld
Karl Lauterbach, here in conversation with Robert Habeck, in the German Bundestag.
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The Bundestag continues its debate on the traffic light plans on Thursday.
The pandemic is likely to be the determining topic again.
Health Minister Lauterbach presents his plans.
Bundestag debate on traffic light plans:
This Thursday the discussion about the plans of the coalition under Chancellor Olaf Scholz * (SPD) continues.
The focus today is on the economy and health, among other things - and thus on Ministers Robert Habeck * (Greens) and Karl Lauterbach * (SPD).
This news ticker is updated regularly.
Berlin - The Bundestag will continue with the debate on the plans of the traffic light government on Thursday.
Seven ministers of the new federal government will present their political priorities from 9 a.m.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to comment on the principles of his Corona * policy around 12.20 p.m.
At the beginning of the session on Thursday, Economics and Climate Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) explained his plans for the legislative period.
The program also includes speeches by another five ministers on their work priorities: education, work, family, transport and construction.
All heads of departments of the traffic light coalition should speak in the Bundestag this week.
The heads of the ministries for finance, agriculture, defense and development aid will follow on Friday.
In the evening, the parliament is to vote on the shortening of the quarantine obligations agreed by the federal and state governments in certain cases.
Traffic light plans: Discussion in the Bundestag continues - focus on Habeck and Lauterbach
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach was reluctant to reach the vaccination target that the new traffic light coalition had set for itself by the end of January. He
told
the news portal
The Pioneer
: "It will be very difficult, that is clear." By the end of January, 80 percent of people in Germany should have been vaccinated at least once. As of Wednesday morning, 62.2 million people (74.8 percent of the population) have received at least one dose.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz defended his government's corona course in the Bundestag on Wednesday. The SPD politician also stated that the planned mandatory vaccination in Germany should, in his personal opinion, include everyone over the age of 18. "It should be about all adults," said Scholz in his first government survey as Chancellor in the Bundestag. He also defended the announced path with cross-party group motions in parliament.
Lauterbach announced that it would dispense with its own proposal for a general vaccination requirement.
He told
The Pioneer
: “I have decided not to present my own proposal, but to be neutral.” Presenting my own draft to Parliament would definitely be “not such a smart idea”.
As health minister he must have “a certain neutrality”.
In the matter he stands "shoulder to shoulder" with Scholz.
"We are clear advocates of mandatory vaccination."
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