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Texte wiki de la nouvelle page, après la modification (new_wikitext) | '<br>By Riham Alkousaa<br> <br>BERLIN, April 7 (Reuters) - Germany's lower house of parliament on Thursday voted against a bill requiring anyone aged 60 and over to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in a defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz.<br> <br>Germany's vaccination campaign is faltering with around 76.6% of Germany's population having received at least one dose - lower than the more than 80% in other western European countries such as France, Italy and Spain.<br> <br>In an attempt to avoid another wave of the virus in the autumn, the cross-party proposal required citizens aged 60 and over to be vaccinated from Oct.<br><br>15.<br> <br>Daily infections are at a high level in Germany but have dipped in the last week or so, with 201,729 new cases reported on Thursday.<br> <br>Of the 683 parliamentarians who voted, 378 voted against the bill and [https://www.content-spinning.fr/ redaction] 296 in favour, triggering cheers from far-right AfD lawmakers.<br>It was a free vote, with lawmakers not told to follow party lines.<br> <br>However, the defeat is a setback for Scholz who had even summoned his foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, to leave a NATO meeting in Brussels to return for the vote.<br> <br>Scholz had last week been forced to drop plans for mandatory vaccinations for over 18s as he could not muster a parliamentary majority.<br> <br>Dirk Wiese, a lawmaker involved in initiating the bill, blamed opposition conservatives, saying they blocked the bill to hurt the government.<br> <br>"The CDU/CSU (conservatives) have unscrupulously answered a question of conscience," Wiese said in a statement.<br> <br>The bill's failure reflects the challenging policy-making dynamics of the ruling coalition, comprising Scholz's Social Democrats, the Greens and liberal Free Democrats who disagree on many issues.<br> <br>The Chancellery declined to comment but Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who backed the bill, said it would be far more difficult to fight the pandemic in the autumn.<br> <br>"Political finger pointing doesn't help. We continue," Lauterbach said on [https://www.Bbc.Co.uk/search/?q=Twitter Twitter].<br> <br>Three additional motions either calling for only advising people to get vaccinated or rejecting the mandate altogether were also voted down after a lively four-hour debate.<br> <br>Imposing vaccinations on citizens violates the second article of the constitution, which guarantees citizens' control over their own bodies, the AfD motion argued.<br> <br>Austria last month suspended its vaccine mandate, six days before fines for breaches were due to start being imposed, on concerns about infringing rights.<br> <br>The German Hospital Federation (DKG) said the failure of the draft bill was the responsibility of all parties.<br> <br>"In the end, we now face a shambles for which all parties are responsible," DKG Chairman Gerald Gass told the Rheinische Post newspaper.<br><br>(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke and Holger Hansen Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Nick Macfie)<br><br>adverts.addToArray({"pos":"inread_player"})Advertisement' |
