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  • 2022-07-01 (xsd:date)
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  • she doesn’t mention that the proposed vaccine mandate would only concern a specific part of the population. Her statement rather implies a general vaccine mandate in the population. Ultimately (en)
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  • On April 07th 2022, German right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) politician Alice Weidel claimed on Twitter that the vaccine mandate in Germany only failed because of the dissenting votes of her party. She refers to the voting of the deputies in the Bundestag earlier that day. According to Weidel, only 40 votes more were needed to reach the majority of the votes and therefore to establish the vaccine mandate. Checking different scenarios of the vote proves that Weidel’s claims can in general be labeled as mostly false. Only in one scenario her claims can be labeled as mostly true. On April 7th 2022, various initiatives on the subject of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination failed in the German Bundestag. In a roll-call vote the deputies rejected all four proposals. The proposals were based on a recommendation by the Health Committee. In this recommendation, the draft laws of Baehrens and Janecek were previously merged, which provided for mandatory vaccination from the age of 60 starting on October 15th 2022. While the other votes showed clear differences in the in-favour and against-votes, the vote on the compromise law of Baehrens and Janecek with 296 votes in favour and 378 against wasn’t that distinct. Weidel, who is part of the head of AfD’s parliamentary group, refers to it as the draft law of the Ampel coalition" which is the governing coalition consisting of the parties SPD (left-wing) (en)
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