If only vaccine breakthrough would mean: breakthrough in vaccination.

But despite the supposedly slight increase in demand in Bavaria too, it is still a long time coming.

In their fear of a further "division of society", politicians continue to give in to hope for the power of symbols, signals and role models.

Timo Frasch

Political correspondent in Munich.

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The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder said on Tuesday about the most famous Bavarian vaccination skeptic: “If Joshua Kimmich were to get vaccinated, even after the worries he had before because he is definitely not a lateral thinker, then that would have an enormous impetus and role model effect for many, many young people. ”The CSU chairman expressed understanding that the club and the national coach stood in front of the FC Bayern players, he, Söder,“ sometimes does that for one or the other too ”.

3 G plus applies to the cabinet

He was evidently alluding to Bavaria's second most prominent vaccine skeptic, his Vice President Hubert Aiwanger from the Free Voters, who, however, probably did not perceive every one of Söder's statements as being put in front of him. Aiwanger is the only minister in the Bavarian cabinet that is still not vaccinated. So far, he had argued that the question of vaccination was a private matter, but now it is increasingly beginning to collide with public affairs, specifically: with the exercise of his offices.

He can still attend meetings of the cabinet in attendance, according to Söder, the 3 G plus regulation applies - so access for people with a negative PCR test. For the upcoming press evening of the Free Voters parliamentary group, however, it is no longer enough if they take the state parliament's requirements - access only for vaccinated and convalescent people - more seriously than some innkeepers the state government.

It looks quite like this.

The parliamentary manager of the Free Voters Group, Fabian Mehring, urged Aiwanger to vaccinate: “In view of the dramatic situation in the clinics, the time would now be spot on to get vaccinated and thus become a role model for all those who have yet to be vaccinated doubt ”, he told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper, with which he also subscribed to Söder's motto to try again for the better for the time being.

Aiwanger doesn't want to comment

He thinks Aiwanger's voice for freedom in the corona debate is valuable, said Mehring.

"His call for normality is only credible if he is vaccinated himself." In addition, it will be difficult for him to exercise his public office if he is excluded from the public by the 2-G rule that he himself has decided.

Inquiries to the Free Voters and the Aiwanger-led Ministry of Economic Affairs revealed that the politician, who is currently ill but has tested negative, does not want to comment on the issue.