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CDU chairman Friedrich Merz wants to give corona-vaccinated people more freedom in the pandemic.
"Fundamental rights are individual rights, but not collective rights, which the state withdraws from everyone if necessary and only granted back to everyone at the same time if the situation allows it again," Merz told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Thursday).
"It is therefore impossible to withhold basic rights across the board from an ever-increasing population group of vaccinated, healthy and convalescent people, because an ever-smaller group is still at risk from the virus."
More freedoms for people who no longer endanger themselves or others is “therefore no discrimination.” This can be done either through proof of a vaccination or a negative corona test, said Merz.
A de facto vaccination requirement is also excluded.
"But those who consciously decide not to have a vaccination must accept that, as long as this risk of infection persists, they must at least do a rapid test before they go to a concert or a football stadium, for example."
Meanwhile, constitutional lawyer Christoph Möllers told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that, in his opinion, privileges for vaccinated persons could be prevented for a transitional period by a law of the Bundestag.
For a few months, in his opinion, there is scope for the legislature to supplement the anti-discrimination law.
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