The Bund-Länder-Round: Not provided for in the Basic Law, in reality not capable of making decisions.
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Berlin It was summer and it was an election campaign. One of the country’s big problems was whether the Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock put something thick on her résumé or whether her Union competitor, Armin Laschet (CDU), laughed at an inopportune moment. A fourth corona wave seemed far away. Very far.
When Baerbock, Laschet and the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz were asked in the TV triell whether there might be a compulsory vaccination for certain professional groups, the answers are: “No” (Scholz), “No” (Laschet) and “As of today: no ”(Baerbock).
Nobody wanted to know anything about a general compulsory vaccination, not even the Chancellor: “There will be no compulsory vaccination,” promised Angela Merkel (CDU). Even the omnipresent SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach made a commitment: “A vaccination against Covid-19 must be the voluntary decision of every individual. Politicians must and will keep their word here. “
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