The Future Chancellor Olaf Scholz voted in favor of such a measure, Tuesday, November 30th. German public opinion is today much more favorable than in the spring.
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Vaccination against COVID-19 could become mandatory in Germany: this is at least the wish expressed by the future Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Tuesday, November 30, during a videoconference at which Angela Merkel and the heads of the sixteenth Länder from the country.
In questioned by Bild TV at the end of this meeting, Olaf Scholz stated that a text proposing mandatory VACCI against CVIV-19 would be examined by the Bundestag by the end of the year for entry into force ” early February or early March “. Politically important precision: he wants this text to emanate from Parliament and not the executive, and that each deputy votes “according to his conscience”, in other words without group discipline. “I propose that it is not we who took the initiative as a government because it is a matter of conscience, but rather the members themselves who have one or more proposals to fix the new Rules, “explained the future social democrat (SPD).
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As Angela Merkel, to whom he will succeed at the head of the government in the week of December 6, Olaf Scholz had so far opposed that vaccination against CVIV-19 becomes compulsory in Germany. Asked about his turnaround, he justified as follows: “We have always been on the fact that the greatest number would be convinced. If we had 80% of the population already vaccinated, or even more as it is The case in other countries, the situation would be different and I would not have changed their minds. “
With 68.5% of its totally vaccinated adult population, Germany is in the European Union average, in front of the countries located in the east of the continent but behind Portugal, Spain, Denmark , Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, France or Sweden. While the incidence rate exceeds 450 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, its hospitals are today at the edge of saturation: in intensive care units, barely 10% of the beds are still available, and for a few days. ‘Air Force is mobilized to transfer patients from one Land to another place in the institutions in their home region. Never seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
Faced with the worsening of the health situation, the calls to make the vaccination against CVIV-19 have multiplied in recent weeks on the Rhine. Public opinion, on this point, has evolved clearly. According to the ZDF’s political barometer, the share of the Germans who declare itself favorable to such a measure increased from 33% to 69% between mid-July and the end of November. A spectacular leap in a country traditionally attached to the freedom of choice in terms of vaccination, as recalled by the vibration of the decision taken by the Government, at the end of 2019, to make the vaccine against measles.
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