Thu Apr 7, 2022 – 10:06 am EDTThu Apr 7, 2022 – 10:37 am EDT
BERLIN (LifeSiteNews) –A majority of German MPs have rejected a bill to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for citizens over 60.
Out of the 683 MPs gathered at the German parliament for the Thursday vote, 378 voted against the measure, 296 said they were in favor, and 9 abstained.
German lawmakers have been debating for months the introduction of a mandatory vaccination policy for all its citizens over 18, similar to the one introduced in Austria.
The rejected bill had been pushed through by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his health minister Karl Lauterbach who, back in March, blamed the unvaccinated for ongoing COVID restrictions, saying that they were “currently responsible for us not getting anywhere.”
The proposal was referred to as a “compromise” by members from the so called “traffic light coalition” composed of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens, as it would have made vaccination mandatory for people over 60 only.
Had the bill passed, it would have meant that everyone over 60 would have been required to show proof of vaccination or
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