Vaccination: Now the Union is also planning a proposal - with two criteria

Created: 01/29/2022, 10:11 am

By: Andreas Schmid

So far, there has been no application from the Union for general vaccination.

Now the health policy group spokesman is pushing ahead.

Berlin – The Union has long held back in the debate about general vaccination requirements.

Responsibility lies with the traffic light government, the leaders of the CDU and CSU recently emphasized.

SPD, Greens and FDP would have to present a joint draft law, it said.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz* in turn put the decision in the hands of the members of the Bundestag.

Cross-party motions are to be submitted, which are then to be voted on across party lines.

Soon there will also be an application from the Union.

Vaccination obligation: Union is planning its own application – with two criteria

The health policy spokesman for the Union faction, Tino Sorge, believes that compulsory corona vaccination only makes sense under certain conditions and with a narrow time limit.

"Compulsory vaccination would only make sense if there was a risk of particularly dangerous virus variants - and if there were suitable vaccines at the same time," said the CDU politician to the

.

"If one of the two is not the case, compulsory vaccination would be of little use." This point of view should be recorded in a separate application.

Tino Sorge has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013.

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So far, there are roughly three scenarios to be voted on: no compulsory vaccination, compulsory vaccination from the age of 18, compulsory vaccination from the age of 50. The CSU politician Stephan Pilsinger also developed the latter proposal.

The FDP MPs Andrew Ullmann and Konstantin Kuhle took up his ideas.

They also only want to introduce compulsory vaccination if there is still a need in the summer.

Tino Sorge doesn't go far enough.

The clear signal to the population must also be: "If vaccination comes, then only with a clear, narrow time limit."

Sorge criticizes: “All group applications lack the differentiation according to virus variants and temporal components – as do ideas for improving the database.” The Union will submit a proposal on these three points, he said.