German Lawmakers Reject Mandatory Vaccination Bill In Latest Blow To Chancellor Scholz
April 7 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, VaccineZEROHEDGE, by Tyler Durden
Update (0900ET): In a major blow for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Bundestag has rejected a bill that would have made COVID vaccination mandatory for all Germans over the age of 60.
Scholz had managed to build broad support for the bill among members of his ‘stop sign’ coalition, but when it came time to vote, 378 out of 683 parliamentarians voted against the bill, while only 296 voted in favor. The failure of the vote elicited cheers from AfD lawmakers, Reuters reported. It was a free vote, with lawmakers instructed not to follow party lines.
The Chancellor pulled out all the stops for the vote, even summoning his foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, to leave a NATO meeting in Brussels to return for the vote.
Should the bill have passed, it’s pretty clear what Scholz next step would have been. The Chancellor has been pushing for mandatory vaccination for all adults.
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The COVID pandemic has largely subsided in Europe (although health authorities have warned about an uptick in cases caused by subvariants and hybrid variants of the omicron strain). But this hasn’t stopped German lawmakers from pushing for a new law that would legally require people age 60 and older to be vaccinated.
But that’s not all. The deal struck by members of Germany’s ruling “stop sign” coalition, which includes Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party, the Greens and the ‘classical liberal’ Free Democrats, also includes an option for making COVID shots mandatory for everybody age 18 and older.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/bill-introducing-mandatory-vaccination-all-germans-over-60-expected-pass
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