Opinions differ on compulsory vaccination: as of Wednesday, four lines are currently being pursued in the Bundestag.
Coalition MPs have proposed making vaccination compulsory for everyone over the age of 60.
Younger people who have not been vaccinated should receive mandatory vaccination advice.
If the vaccination rate remains too low, compulsory vaccination for younger people could follow in October.
The CDU and CSU, on the other hand, want to make a decision in advance: if the situation worsens, compulsory vaccination should be imposed.
A number of FDP MPs have drafted an application against a general obligation to vaccinate.
The AfD wants to go one step further and also lift the institution-related vaccination requirement.
Frankfurt MP Armand Zorn (SPD) will vote for the compromise proposal.
In his Frankfurt I constituency, he experienced that the corona numbers were high, but Omicron was milder than previous variants.
"I therefore think it is advisable in the current situation to say: We now have an obligation to provide information." He hopes that enough people will still be vaccinated.
"But of course we reserve the right to introduce general vaccination requirements."
Omid Nouripur (Die Grünen), who represents the other Frankfurt constituency, also wants to agree to the compromise proposal.
"In order to have the greatest possible freedom in the coming autumn and winter, we have to act now," says the politician, who is also one of the two leaders of the Greens.
“I am therefore very happy that we have now reached a good compromise.
In this way we can protect a large part of the vulnerable groups and further contain the pandemic.”
Vaccination is "not communicable and difficult to enforce in practice"
The Wiesbaden member of the Bundestag Ingmar Jung (CDU) wants to vote for the CDU application for vaccination.
He thinks the introduction of compulsory vaccination, no matter what age, “is not proportionate”.
A mandatory vaccination against the Delta variant could have largely protected against infection and transmission.
This convincing argument is no longer effective because Omikron offers "at most a low level of protection against infection".
Nobody knows what the situation will be like in autumn and "which variants are still waiting for us".
Klaus-Peter Willsch (CDU), directly elected member of parliament in the Rheingau-Taunus/Limburg constituency, sees “many good reasons to be vaccinated, but no general obligation to do so”.
Willsch, himself recovered and boosted, stands by the promise made to citizens in the initial phase of the pandemic that there will be no general vaccination.
At the beginning of the pandemic, he would not have raised any serious concerns about compulsory vaccination.
But now he considers "in view of the months of protestations by those responsible in politics that an abrupt change of course cannot be communicated and is difficult to implement in practice".
Should the vote on Thursday remain, Willsch will not vote: He is on a business trip in the United States.