{"id":1425514,"date":"2022-04-08T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425514"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:01:00","slug":"german-govt-loses-vote-on-imposing-mandatory-vaccinations-on-over-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-govt-loses-vote-on-imposing-mandatory-vaccinations-on-over-60s\/","title":{"rendered":"German Govt Loses Vote on Imposing Mandatory Vaccinations on Over-60s"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fgerman-govt-loses-vote-on-imposing-mandatory-vaccinations-on-over-60s%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=1425514&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Bundestag, Germany\u2019s federal parliament, has rejected a vaccine mandate for people over the age of 60, with the left-liberal coalition government\u2019s proposal losing by over 80 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Bundestag voted against the vaccine mandate, which would have made coronavirus vaccination mandatory for all residents of Germany over the age of 60, on Thursday, despite the move being backed by the coalition government comprised of politicians from the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD), far-left Greens, and liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP).<\/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>The mandate was rejected by the Bundestag by a vote of 296 MPs for the motion to 378 against, with nine MPs abstaining from the vote, newspaper <em>Frankfurter Rundschau<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fr.de\/politik\/coronavirus-corona-impfpflicht-abstimmung-bundestag-ab-60-lauterbach-news-ticker-zr-91463274.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, a fanatical supporter of compulsory vaccination, reacted to the rejection by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2676141\">saying<\/a>\u00a0it was \u201ca very important decision because now the fight against Corona in the fall will be much harder. Political recriminations do not help. We will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Held Hostage by These People\u2019 \u2013 German Health Minister Denounces Unjabbed, Demands Vax Mandate<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gQlSEmEa5S\">https:\/\/t.co\/gQlSEmEa5S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1504527738329198593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The vote is the first significant defeat for the leftist coalition government since it took power in Germany last year and both Health Minister Lauterbach and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, both of the Social Democratic Party, backed the idea of mandatory vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>In December of last year, Scholz stated that he supported mandatory vaccinations not just for those over the age of 60 but for all residents of Germany. He stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/01\/merkel-successor-sholz-pushes-mandatory-vaccinations-for-germans\/\">he would campaign<\/a> for mandatory vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need is a legislative procedure in which every member of parliament votes according to his conscience on a general vaccination obligation,\u201d Chancellor Scholz said.<\/p>\n<p>While the leftist coalition does have a majority in the Bundestag, it has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fr.de\/politik\/coronavirus-corona-impfpflicht-abstimmung-bundestag-ab-60-lauterbach-news-ticker-zr-91463274.html\">speculated<\/a> that the loss was due to the voting behaviour of some in the FDP, a pro-business liberal party that is a junior party in the coalition alongside the SPD and the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>In neighbouring Austria, Herbert Kickl, leader of the populist Freedom Party (FP\u00d6), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2676258\">commented<\/a>\u00a0on the results of the vote saying: \u201cOur government is also so happy to take German politics as a model for all sorts of \u2018nonsense\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow it has the opportunity to imitate the Germans with something reasonable and necessary, namely the rejection of a compulsory vaccination regime that tramples on fundamental rights and freedoms and lacks any scientific evidence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Around 600,000 Italians over the age of 50 are set to receive a fine for being unvaccinated despite the Italian government reviewing a loosening of various Wuhan virus restrictions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mdnGPe0fva\">https:\/\/t.co\/mdnGPe0fva<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1502722366987714568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bundestag, Germany\u2019s federal parliament, has rejected a vaccine mandate for people over the age of 60, with the left-liberal coalition government\u2019s proposal losing by over 80 votes. 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