{"id":1089186,"date":"2021-12-06T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1089186"},"modified":"2021-12-06T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:14:20","slug":"new-german-government-taps-lockdown-loving-lawmaker-as-new-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-german-government-taps-lockdown-loving-lawmaker-as-new-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"New German Government Taps Lockdown Loving Lawmaker as New Health Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-german-government-taps-lockdown-loving-lawmaker-as-new-health-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1089186&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237047677-e1638787671628-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">BERLIN (AP) \u2013 Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz announced Monday that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution in the coronavirus pandemic will be Germany\u2019s new health minister, part of a team that includes the first woman to become the country\u2019s top security official.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz presented his center-left Social Democrats\u2019 nominees for the Cabinet hours before the last of the prospective partners in the new government, the environmentalist Greens, planned to announce whether their members have voted in a ballot to approve a three-party coalition deal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>That would clear the way for parliament to elect Scholz on Wednesday after conventions of the Social Democrats and the pro-business Free Democrats backed the accord at the weekend. His election will end the 16-year tenure of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p>The most closely watched appointment was that of the health minister, as Germany struggles to bring down its highest coronavirus infection rates of the pandemic so far. Scholz chose Karl Lauterbach, an epidemiologist and media-savvy lawmaker who lacks executive experience but has been one of Germany\u2019s most prominent voices urging caution and strict measures against COVID-19 since the pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pandemic is far from over,\u201d said Scholz, arguing that \u201cmost people in this country certainly wanted the next health minister to be a specialist who can really do it well, and for him to be called Karl Lauterbach.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9775280898876\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018National Emergency\u2019 \u2014 Germany May Introduce Mandatory Vaccines as Coronavirus Cases Climb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OSAMlPemfR\">https:\/\/t.co\/OSAMlPemfR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1462516163313762305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Federal and state leaders last week announced tough new restrictions that largely target unvaccinated people. In a longer-term move, parliament will consider a general vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about prospects for the Christmas period, Lauterbach said that \u201can important aim must be to bring the case numbers down so far that we can recommend travel without endangering people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Announcing his choices for the interior and defense portfolios, Scholz said that \u201csecurity will be in the hands of strong women in this government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Faeser, a lawyer who heads the party\u00b4s branch in the central state of Hesse, was an unexpected choice to become Germany\u2019s first female interior minister, a post that includes oversight of federal police forces and the domestic intelligence agency. Faeser said that a major focus will be fighting far-right extremism, which she called \u201cthe biggest threat\u201d to the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Outgoing Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht will become the new defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>Klara Geywitz, a senior Social Democrat from eastern Germany who was Scholz\u2019s partner in a failed bid for the party leadership in 2019, will head a new construction ministry. Outgoing Environment Minister Svenja Schulze becomes the minister for international development. Labor Minister Hubertus Heil will remain in his job.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1151832460733\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Everything We Feared\u2019 \u2014 Incoming Leftist Coalition Govt in Germany to Push for a Federal EU Superstate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I6bfSAodUP\">https:\/\/t.co\/I6bfSAodUP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1465280629289988097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scholz\u2019s chief of staff will be Wolfgang Schmidt, a longtime confidant of the incoming leader who has been his deputy finance minister in the outgoing government.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens and Free Democrats already have named their ministers. Scholz\u2019s vice chancellor will be Robert Habeck, one of the Greens\u2019 co-leaders. He will head an economy and climate ministry, a new combination. The Greens\u2019 other co-leader, Annalena Baerbock, will become Germany\u2019s first female foreign minister after making her party\u2019s first bid for the chancellery in the September election.<\/p>\n<p>The Free Democrats\u2019 leader, Christian Lindner, will become finance minister and effectively the No. 3 official in the new government.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz had pledged a gender-balanced Cabinet \u2013 which it is, if one doesn\u2019t count the chancellor. He said his own party\u2019s choices reflected the fact that women should \u201chave half of the power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2013 Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz announced Monday that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution in the coronavirus pandemic will be Germany\u2019s new health minister, part &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}