Germany’s Commitment
Vaccination advocates want mandatory for all citizens over 60
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Advocates of a general obligation to vaccinate reached a compromise: According to information from WELT, the group of parliamentarians wants to vote on a general obligation to vaccinate from the age of 60 on Thursday. It is unclear whether the plan has a majority.
Just before the Bundestag decision on Thursday, advocates of mandatory coronavirus vaccination continue to fight for the majority. According to information from WELT, advocates of mandatory vaccination from the age of 18 and those in favor of mandatory vaccination from the age of 50 have agreed on a completely new proposal: mandatory vaccination from the age of 60.
As stated a short time later in an official press release, “the vaccination certificate is mandatory for all people over 60 years old, that is, the population group particularly threatened”. Must be completed by October. This obligation could be lifted with a Bundestag resolution in June, if the vaccination rate can be increased enough.
In the autumn, against the background of the then prevailing knowledge and potential variants of the virus, the Bundestag must decide “whether the activation of the obligation to provide proof of vaccination for age groups from 18 years old should also come into force”.
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Both the group of previous Ü18 supporters, which includes Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (both from the SPD), and those of a possible Ü50 obligation around FDP health politician Andrew Ullmann, expect a majority for this plan in the vote on Thursday – but it needs more supporters.
However, according to information from WELT, this is not to be expected from the Union faction, which proposes a vaccination plan, nor from the group around Deputy FDP Wolfgang Kubicki, who categorically rejects an obligation. A CDU MP described the compromise as a “package of cheating”. Apparently, the two groups that are now putting forward the new agreement hope their joint request will be the last to be voted on: after requests previously rejected, a majority can surprisingly happen.
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“I still believe that we will decide on mandatory vaccination on Thursday,” Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) said Tuesday in Berlin. Lawmakers are willing to take a sensible approach against a new wave of corona looming in the fall.
“We didn’t want to be left without a solution at the end of the day,” FDP politician Ullmann WELT said of the compromise. He is sure there can be a majority for the Ü60 bond. “We don’t want to hit people with a wooden hammer, but thanks to good information we want to be well prepared for next autumn.”
The Bundestag votes on the obligation to vaccinate without party guidelines. Neither mandatory vaccination from the age of 18 nor mandatory vaccination from the age of 50 has so far had a chance of obtaining a majority.
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