Would mandatory vaccination be legally possible? That is what constitutional lawyers say

Vaccination Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The vaccination rate does not seem to be able to be increased with voluntary participation.

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Germany is in the fourth corona wave. The infections increase sharply. The vaccination rate is far too low to contain the pandemic. There is now a heated debate about a general compulsory vaccination or compulsory vaccination for certain professional groups.

At the beginning of the week, the prime ministers of the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, which are particularly affected by the particularly devastating numbers of infections, Markus Söder (CSU) and Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), campaigned for such a mandatory vaccination. Kretschmann said on Monday evening on ZDF that he did not believe that such an obligation would be unconstitutional.

Kretschmann spoke of a difficult weighing process. Even deeper interventions are measures like those in overburdened hospitals – such as a selection of who is treated and who is not. Kretschmann made it clear that if a vaccination is compulsory, no one will end up in jail if they refused, or be picked up by the police for vaccination.

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