Supporters and opponents of the corona vaccination obligation face each other irreconcilably in the Bundestag.

By noon, Parliament wants to decide on the introduction of compulsory vaccination, and several proposals are to be voted on.

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD), who supports the latest compromise and thus for compulsory vaccination from 60 years, warned of the consequences if vaccination is not compulsory.

If the omicron variant remains dominant, between 200 and 300 people will continue to die per day.

"Do we want to accept that as a society?" Lauterbach asked.

"It can't be a humane society for us." Lauterbach appealed to the Union not to prevent the compromise.

The obligation to vaccinate from the age of 60 represents 90 percent of the avoidable deaths that could be prevented with an obligation to vaccinate from the age of 18.

Kim Bjorn Becker

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The Greens' health policy, Paula Piechotta, also campaigned for the compromise proposal.

Society had already entered the Corona autumn unprepared in the past two years, and that must not happen again.

The differences between the draft law and the Union's proposal to introduce a so-called preventive vaccination law are marginal.

"Time is running out," warned Piechotta.

This is not the time to “give something to the traffic light”;

the whole country is affected.

The CDU MP Tino Sorge previously addressed the unclear majority in the Bundestag.

"We should have found a majority from the middle of the house," he said, and at the same time promoted the Union model.

One cannot make a general decision when it comes to the question of whether vaccination should be compulsory.

“Fortunately, we have declining incidence figures.

Let's create a reliable data basis," said Sorge with regard to the demand to introduce a nationwide vaccination register.

He contradicted the criticism that his group was not behaving constructively.

The Union had presented a compromise that everyone could agree to.

The speakers from AfD and FDP, who each made their own applications, argued clearly against the introduction of compulsory vaccination.

AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel called compulsory corona vaccination “radically unconstitutional”.

The government is concerned with the “desire for unrestricted power of disposal”.

Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) said he could well understand that "emotions run high" in the debate.

It is important not to rely on false justifications when making a decision.

“Herd immunity is not achieved through vaccination.

It is not the fault of the unvaccinated that other people become infected. ”There will probably not be an overload of the health system either.

"Vaccinations serve to protect oneself and not to protect others," said Kubicki.

“It is not the job of the state to force adults to protect themselves against their will.”