CDU demands inquiry commission on corona policy
NOh he FDP The Union in the Bundestag is also calling for a commission of inquiry to be set up to deal with mistakes in corona policy. The health policy spokesman for the Union faction in the Bundestag, Tino Sorge (CDU), told the FAZ: “Now we finally need a systematic review of the corona policy.” The aim must be “to learn from mistakes and to prepare the country for future health crises”. . The commission must be set up before the summer, demanded.
“Together with scientists, external experts and members of the Bundestag, she should examine the political decisions since the outbreak of the pandemic, especially their effects on our society and economy.” “We will also have to look at Sweden and other countries that have taken different paths in dealing with the pandemic, possibly better ones than Germany.”
According to the Bundestag’s rules of procedure, Parliament can set up a commission of inquiry “to prepare decisions on extensive and significant issues”. In order for such a body to start work, a quarter of the MPs must vote in favor of it. According to the rules of procedure, the Enquête Commission must submit its report “in good time” so that it can be debated in plenary by the end of the electoral term. There are still about two and a half years until the next regular election date in autumn 2025.
At the beginning of March, the FDP, which co-governed in the traffic light coalition, had already demanded that a “pandemic” inquiry committee be set up. “We mustn’t make the mistake of forgetting and just carrying on as if nothing had happened,” said the health policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Andrew Ullmann, in justification.
In a position paper, the FDP states that the commission it is striving for has to “comprehensively identify and process the revealed deficiencies in the crisis capability of our educational, social, economic and health systems as well as the constitutional state, which is divided into powers, in order to improve resilience”. This should be done from a scientific point of view. “Of course, it shouldn’t be about berating political decision-makers who had to make serious decisions about life and death in an unclear information situation,” said the Vice President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP). “That would be cheap and populist.”
The CDU health politician Tino Sorge accuses the incumbent Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) of “secretly” glossing over his sometimes drastic positions of the past few years. Among other things, concern was referring to Lauterbach’s recent announcement that he wanted to better help those injured in the corona vaccination campaign in the future; Lauterbach had previously given the impression on Twitter that damage was practically not to be expected. At the beginning of the pandemic, the CDU the Federal Minister of Health in the form of Jens Spahn.
Research by the FAZ recently showed that almost 300 applications for benefits from corona vaccination victims have now been recognized by the state authorities nationwide. That is almost twice as many as in October, when the FAZ last collected the data. In total, almost 65 million people in Germany have received at least one vaccination against Sars-CoV-2; arithmetically, there is currently a recognized vaccination damage for about 220,000 vaccinated people. The corona vaccination is therefore still considered very safe overall.
