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Controversial topic of compulsory vaccination: CDU drives Lauterbach up the wall – "It's not honest"

2022-02-19T13:20:24.735Z


Controversial topic of compulsory vaccination: CDU drives Lauterbach up the wall – "It's not honest" Created: 2022-02-19 2:13 p.m By: Cindy Boden Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach © Chris Emil Janssen/Imago It has long been clear that Karl Lauterbach is behind a vaccination application. But criticism continues to come from the opposition. Now the Minister of Health is striking back. Dusseldo


Controversial topic of compulsory vaccination: CDU drives Lauterbach up the wall – "It's not honest"

Created: 2022-02-19 2:13 p.m

By: Cindy Boden

Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach © Chris Emil Janssen/Imago

It has long been clear that Karl Lauterbach is behind a vaccination application.

But criticism continues to come from the opposition.

Now the Minister of Health is striking back.

Dusseldorf - With the vaccination requirement in Germany, it takes longer than originally planned.

Does she come at all?

This question has not yet been finally clarified.

After all, an application seems to have a large and prominent circle of supporters.

But now the Federal Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, has handed it out.

The SPD politician accused the CDU of wanting to slow down the general corona vaccination he was aiming for.

North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) is calling for compulsory vaccination to be done quickly, Lauterbach said on Saturday (February 19) in a video greeting at the digital party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD.

But it is always presented as if compulsory vaccination is a project of the traffic light coalition in Berlin and the federal government has to implement it.

Lauterbach upset about the CDU and compulsory vaccination: "It's not honest"

"There is a lot of pressure," said Lauterbach.

It is the CDU in the Bundestag, "which does everything to ensure that we should not be able to get the general vaccination requirement," said the SPD minister.

"That's not honest."

Wüst is a well-known reminder at the Corona summits when it comes to compulsory vaccination.

Only recently called on the federal government to quickly implement a general obligation to vaccinate: "With a view to autumn and a possible next wave, we must not take the easy route and stop working on mandatory vaccination, even if the number of infections is falling," he told the

Rheinische Post

.

The federal government must now conduct its debates quickly and make decisions.

(Traffic lights ahead of big tasks - you can find out what the SPD, Greens and FDP are planning in our political newsletter.)

Video: Health Minister Lauterbach fears even faster easing in the federal states

Compulsory vaccination in Germany: Lauterbach supports the advance from the Bundestag

Lauterbach has already made it clear that he supports a push by several members of the traffic light coalition for compulsory vaccination from the age of 18.

The Union faction has submitted its own application, which initially only provides for a vaccination register and then a graduated plan with a possible vaccination obligation for certain groups depending on the pandemic situation.

There are also other competing drafts: one for mandatory advice and a possible vaccination requirement from the age of 50, one against mandatory vaccination.

The traffic light partners have agreed on a first reading on March 14th.

A vote without the usual group discipline is planned.

However, this procedure makes it more difficult to organize majorities in parliament.

This is one of the reasons why doubts have repeatedly arisen as to whether vaccination will be compulsory at all.

Undeterred by this, Chancellor Olaf Scholz is vigorously promoting the duty.

(dpa/cibo)

Source: merkur

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