Forty-five MEPs spoke Wednesday at the Bundestag forum as part of a simple “guidance debate” on this issue, having been submitted at this stage deposited.
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For four hours, they took turns to the Bundestag forum. Wednesday, January 26, forty-five deputies spoke on the most discussed topic of the moment in Germany: mandatory vaccination against CVIV-19. Nearly two months after the new Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, voted in favor of such a measure, it was only a simple “guidance debate”, no text yet filed.
By the variety of perspectives exposed, including by members of the same group, the exchanges, however, gave a taste of the harshness of the discussions that will take place in the coming weeks in the Assembly, Reflection of a society where supporters of mandatory vaccination would be slightly majority (62% according to the latest Barometer of the ZDF, published on January 14), but where opponents come down on the street daily to manifest their anger, sometimes so Muscular.
Main argument of the defenders of the vaccination obligation: the incentive is no longer enough. Two months after the generalization of the “2G” rule, which prohibits the non-vaccinated access to most public places, the share of the population who received two doses has increased: 69% in early December 2021 It is today only 73.5%, which ranks Germany far behind countries like France, Italy or Spain.
In the face of this failure, many believe that the time of the constraint has come. “We are not going to be able to reach the endemic stage on the basis of volunteering,” said MP Jessica Rosenthal, leader of the Jusos, the Youth Organization of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Rather than forcing all adults to be vaccinated, some do not want to target only more than 50 years, as in Italy. To convince the non-vaccinated to take the footsteps, several members also propose to compel them to go to an “awareness” session with a health professional, in order to give all his chances to persuasion. “If you have to go through the obligation so that people behave reasonably, we want it to be done only in the last resort,” said MP Andrew Ullmann, a member of the Liberal-Democratic Party (FDP).
Only one group makes completely block against the vaccination obligation: that of the alternative far-right party for Germany (AFD). “If the state arrogated the right to decide the body of the citizens, it would be a break in civilization,” said Alice Weidel, the President of the AFD Group in the Bundestag, for whom the immunization obligation does not is justified “neither medical nor ethically nor legally”.
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