Germany: Parliament votes on compulsory corona vaccination

The German Bundestag will decide on Thursday (9.00 a.m.) on the possible introduction of a general corona vaccination requirement in Germany. Before the vote without the usual parliamentary group specifications, there were initially no clear majorities. The only draft law that has been drafted is a compromise proposal for mandatory vaccination for people over 60 years of age. Two groups of MPs from the SPD, FDP and Greens had agreed on this.

Two applications reject compulsory vaccination, the Union initially calls for the establishment of a vaccination register in one application. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a general obligation to vaccinate had long been ruled out across party lines. In view of the slow pace of vaccinations, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the Prime Ministers, among others, spoke out in favor of it at the end of last year. As a member of parliament, Scholz initially advocated compulsory vaccination from the age of 18. In Austria, the government suspended compulsory vaccination once morest the corona virus in March.