D.he Union parliamentary group wants to increase the pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the traffic light government in the debate about a general vaccination requirement with a 17-point questionnaire. In view of the threatened spread of the Omikron variant, people are “unsettled and rightly ask whether the new federal government is doing everything necessary and possible to combat the pandemic,” says a six-page letter from the parliamentary managing director available to the German Press Agency in Berlin of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Thorsten Frei (CDU), to Wolfgang Schmidt, head of the Chancellery, on Wednesday.
Against this background, it is very astonishing that the federal government has taken a passive stance on the compulsory vaccination debate and has left it with mere references to the Bundestag, “criticized Frei in the letter. MEPs could only make responsible decisions if they had comprehensive information, sound legal assessments and a valid picture of the situation at their disposal. Schmidt asked Frei to answer the catalog of questions before the end of the year.
Among other things, the Union parliamentary group asks whether the Federal Government wants to submit its own draft law “in view of the fundamental rights-relevant dimension of the topic as well as the technical complexity and the high need for justification”. The impression must be avoided that the government is indifferent to the margins or stealing from responsibility. “This would only be further food for the uncertainty of the people in our country and poison for the resolute fight against the pandemic.”
The questionnaire asks, among other things, the possibilities of checking and enforcing a mandatory vaccination, the establishment of a vaccination register and the dangers for the critical infrastructures in the areas of health, food, electricity and water supply.