Supporters in the Bundestag agree
New compromise proposal: compulsory vaccination from the age of 60
04/05/2022, 7:15 p.m
There is no majority for compulsory corona vaccination from the age of 18, nor for a modified version from the age of 50. Now the vaccination advocates in the Bundestag are finding an agreement: there should be a regulation from the age of 60.
There is movement in the struggle for a majority-capable compromise for general corona vaccination in Germany. The two groups of deputies in the Bundestag, who have each introduced their own draft legislation for compulsory vaccination, agreed on a joint proposal for compulsory vaccination from the age of 60 for the time being. This increases the chances of the vote, which is planned for this Thursday without the usual group guidelines.
As it says in a statement, “a vaccination certificate is to be mandatory for all people over the age of 60, i.e. the particularly vulnerable population group”. It is envisaged that it must be fulfilled by October. According to the proposal, this obligation can still be suspended with a Bundestag resolution in June if the vaccination rate has been increased sufficiently. In the autumn, against the background of the then prevailing knowledge and potential virus variants, the Bundestag is to decide “whether the activation of the obligation to provide proof of vaccination for age groups from 18 years of age should also take effect”.
Specifically, it is the group around SPD parliamentary group leader Dirk Wiese and the Greens health expert Janosch Dahmen, who initially aimed for compulsory vaccination from the age of 18. On Monday she already presented a compromise proposal for a duty from the age of 50 with the option of extending it to all adults.
The second group, led by the FDP health politician Andrew Ullmann, had proposed compulsory advice and then a possible compulsory vaccination from the age of 50. The initiative, which originally proposed mandatory vaccinations from 18, has so far been supported by 237 MPs. The group for compulsory vaccination from 50 initially supported around 45 parliamentarians.