"Reason of state": Lauterbach wants to get Union on the vaccination boat - traffic lights threaten a massive flop
Created: 03/20/2022, 21:16
By: Florian Naumann
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach at a cabinet meeting (archive photo).
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Does compulsory vaccination from 18 still have a chance?
Karl Lauterbach intensifies his appeals to the Union - there is now talk of "reason of state".
Berlin – Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD)* continues to struggle on all channels for approval of compulsory vaccination in the corona pandemic* – on Sunday evening in an ARD interview he referred to “reason of state” in the question of compulsory vaccination.
"In the democratic parties, we all have to stick together for reasons of state," said Lauterbach on the ARD program "Report from Berlin".
There should be no party politics.
“We are not closing the vaccination gap voluntarily.
There has to be compulsory vaccination.” Talks with the CDU are also necessary for this.
Corona vaccination requirement: Lauterbach continues to hope for Union – despite clear rejection
Even after the first turbulent consultation in the Bundestag on the subject of compulsory vaccination, none of the applications for compulsory vaccination seem to have a majority.
Union health expert Tino Sorge (CDU) recently
categorically ruled out cooperation for general vaccination in a conversation with
Merkur.de *.
The CDU and CSU are in the running with their own group-level model.
Lauterbach now proposed a fusion of the concepts again in the program “RTL Aktuell”.
He advocates “that we merge these two applications that we currently have for general vaccination into one application that will then find a majority,” said the minister.
Traffic light in the corona chaos: no vaccination solution in sight - massive dispute about easing
Even a draft law by deputies from the three traffic light groups does not rule out general vaccination requirements from the age of 18.
The draft by members of parliament around the FDP politician Andrew Ullmann provides for the introduction of an obligation to provide advice for all adults - with the possibility of later creating an obligation to vaccinate everyone over the age of 50.
For the first time on Thursday, the Bundestag debated the draft laws and applications for general compulsory vaccination.
The five templates range from compulsory vaccination from the age of 18 to no to any requirement.
Parliament wants to make a decision at the beginning of April, by then a compromise should be sought.
Austria has meanwhile mothballed its vaccination requirement again.
Corona policy could become a bigger problem for the traffic light in spring 2022.
On Friday, the Bundestag and Bundesrat had passed the new Infection Protection Act and the associated easing - albeit under doubts within the coalition and strong reproaches from the federal states.
Lauterbach seemed to want to get himself out of the line of fire on this issue.
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