Vaccination: Members of the Bundestag Radwan (CSU) and Bär (Greens) still have questions

Created: 01/27/2022, 13:00

By: Sebastian Grauvogl

Place of debate: the Bundestag.

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The Bundestag is debating the introduction of a general obligation to vaccinate: Alexander Radwan (CSU) and Karl Bär (Greens) still have questions.

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– A decision has not yet been made in yesterday's orientation debate in the Bundestag on the subject of compulsory vaccination.

That wasn't even the aim of the event.

Rather, it was about a fundamental exchange of proposals, deliberately without party pressure.

Every member of parliament should find his own personal answer to the question of conscience.

Yesterday on the phone, they explained to us which position the two MPs for the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen/Miesbach constituency are going into the debate with.

Alexander Radwan (CSU) cannot quite understand why freedom of conscience is so emphasized when forming an opinion on compulsory vaccination.

"My conscience plays a role in every vote in the Bundestag, and I've never felt constrained," emphasizes Radwan.

The federal government has taken this course mainly because it has not found a unified position and therefore fears that it will not get a majority for general vaccination.

"The traffic light coalition is disappearing," criticizes the CSU member of the Bundestag.

And that with the most important topic of the past two years, which is already dividing society.

Radwan: Traffic light coalition disappears

Radwan also complains that a number of factual issues have not yet been clarified.

Above all for feasibility and thus for the introduction of a vaccination register.

It is not the Bundestag that has to provide the answers, but the health and justice ministries.

For this purpose, fundamental questions need to be clarified that create a basis for being able to react in autumn before a possible winter wave.

Radwan is undisputed that vaccination is the best way to combat the pandemic.

However, the changed conditions caused by the Omicron variant have not yet been clarified enough for him to make a final decision.

It is therefore not yet possible to give a general answer as to which form of the variants of compulsory vaccination that are under discussion is the right one, says Radwan.

"The situation has to show that." The vaccination requirement is only an "ultima ratio" in question.

Bär considers feasibility to be feasible

Karl Bär (Greens) was eagerly awaiting the debate.

He makes no secret of his position: "I am in favor of compulsory vaccination," he says and thinks that the majority of the Greens also support it.

The deputy is certain that compulsory vaccination is better than a permanent lockdown – i.e. also the milder means.

But perhaps it will also show that the Omikron variant no longer makes this necessary.

He has no doubts about the fundamental feasibility of compulsory vaccination.

Organizing that is the job of politicians.

"But it's not rocket science, there will be a way," he says.

He does not consider a vaccination register to be necessary.

"I have a fundamental aversion to collecting health data from the population centrally," he emphasizes.

Bär, on the other hand, can imagine random checks.

Ultimately, however, there are still a few open questions.

For example, what to do with people who do not want to be vaccinated.

Nobody gets locked up, he says.

That's not up for discussion.

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