Vaccination obligation: traffic light MPs announce joint draft

Shortly before the Bundestag debate
Traffic light MPs announce draft for compulsory vaccination

Too few corona vaccinations are still being administered in Germany. The Bundestag therefore wants to discuss general vaccination requirements next week.

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The debate about general corona vaccination is gaining momentum. Now seven MPs from the traffic light groups of the SPD, Greens and FDP have announced a first draft law.

It has already been introduced in neighboring Austria and the debate about compulsory vaccination is picking up speed in Germany as well. Shortly before the orientation debate in the Bundestag on Wednesday, seven members of the traffic light parliamentary groups announced a first draft law for the introduction of general corona vaccination. The group is in favor of an obligation from the age of 18 and wants to work on a draft after the Bundestag debate, according to a letter published on Friday that is available to the German Press Agency.

Vaccination draft in preparation for autumn and winter

“On this important issue, we are expressly open and cross-party, because we want to bring about a democratic consensus for the best possible solution,” it said. The aim is a “sustainable, proportionate and at the same time targeted” solution. “Our motivation lies primarily in being prepared in the long term for the coming autumn and winter season and in preventing the healthcare system from being overloaded in future waves of infection.”

The letter is signed by the SPD MPs Dirk Wiese, Heike Baehrens and Dagmar Schmidt, the Green MPs Janosch Dahmen and Till Steffen and the FDP MPs Katrin Helling-Plahr and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. So far, a first draft of a group around FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki is known, which speaks out against compulsory vaccination.

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