Austria/Nationalrat/Voted YES to mandatory Covid jab

 Austria/Nationalrat/Voted YES to mandatory Covid jab

Date	20 January 2022
Location	Nationalrat
Participants	Angela Baumgartner, Nikolaus Berlakovich, Lukas Brandweiner, Romana Deckenbacher, Martina Diesner-Wais, Kurt Egger, Martin Engelberg, Franz Leonhard EßI, Klaus Fürlinger, Hermann Gahr, Wolfgang Gersti, Ernst Gödl, Tanja Graf, Maria Großbauer, Michael Hammer, Andreas Hanger, Peter Haubner, Josef Hechenberger, Eva-Maria Himmelbauer, Hans Stefan Hintner, Manfred Hofinger, Johann Höfinger, Andrea Holzner, Franz Hörl, Johanna Jachs, Carmen Jeitler-Cincelli, Martina Kaufmann, Rebecca Kirchbaumer, Karlheinz Kopf, Andreas Kühberger, Klaus Lindinger, Reinhold Lopatka, Nico Marchetti, Alexander Melchior, Andreas Minnich, Neumann-Hartberger Irene, Maria Theresia Niss, Gabriel Obernosterer, Friedrich Ofenauer, Andreas Ottenschläger, Elisabeth Pfurtscheller, Laurenz Põttinger, Nikolaus Prinz, Bettina Rausch, Gertraud Salzmann, Werner Saxinger, Corinna Scharzenberger, Elis. Scheucher-Pichler, Joh. Schmuckenschlager, Joachim Schnabel, Gabriela Schwarz, Norbert Sieber, Maria Smodics-Neumann, Josef Smolle, Wolfgang Sobotka, Christoph Stark, Michaela Steinacker, Christian Stocker, Georg Strasser, Alexandra Tanda, Rudolf Taschner, Agnes Totter, Johann Weber, Peter Weidinger, August Wöginger, Christoph Zarits, Bettina Zopf, Petra Bayr, Ruth Becher, Doris Bures, Christian Drobits, Cornelia Ecker, Reinhold Einwallner, Melanie Erasim, Elisabeth Feichtinger, Karin Greiner, Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek, Julia Elisabeth Herr, Eva Maria Holzleitner, Dietmar Keck, Klaus Köchl, Maximilian Köllner, Andreas Kollross, Kai Jan Krainer, Katharina Kucharowits, Philip Kucher, Andrea Kuntzl, Jörg Leichtfried, Mario Lindner, Christoph Matznetter, Verena Nussbaum, Petra Oberrauner, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Sabine Schatz, Alois Schroll, Michael Seemayer, Alois Stöger, Harald Troch, Petra Wimmer, Rainer Wimmer, Selma Yildirim, Nurten Yılmaz, Eva Blimlinger, Georg Bürstmayr, Meri Disoski, Faika El-Nagashi, Elisabeth Götze, Heike Grebien, Sibylle Hamann, Lukas Hammer, Markus Koza, Sigrid Maurer, Barbara Neßler, Agnes Sirkka Prammer, Michel Reimon, Bedrana Ribo, Astrid Rössler, Ralph Schallmeiner, Jakob Schwarz, Clemens Stammler, David Stögmüller, Nina Tomaselli, Olga Voglauer, Hermann Weratschnig, Süleyman Zorba, Michael Bernhard, Helmut Brandstätter, Henrike Brandstötter, Karin Doppelbauer, D. Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff, Sarre Martina Künsberg, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Nikolaus Scherak, Julia Seidl, Yannick Shetty, Katharina Werner, Philippa Strache
Perpetrators	Austria/Nationalrat
Interests	Mandatory Covid jab
Description	These members of the Austrian parliament voted YES to the introduction of a mandatory Covid jab in February 2022

On 20 January 2022, the Austrian parliament Nationalrat, voted to make it illegal to exist in Austria without taking the Covid jab.

Overview

People aged 14 and above (with a few marginal exceptions) would face fines of up to 3,600 euros ($4,071) every three months. The plan was to introduce be quarterly vaccination deadlines, where the authorities would check a central vaccination register to see if members of the public are in it. If the fine was not paid, it would lead to regular proceedings.

The law among other things stated that any exemptions (like initially for pregnant women or people "recovered" from "Covid") could be changed when deemed suitable:

§3 Exemptions:

(4) the obligation to carry with one the proof of exemption, which is also to be entered into the centrally administered vaccine registry by the exemption-awarding physician.

(5) affords 'the responsible cabinet minister the authority to decree further particulars and minimum requirements'; all that the Health Minister is obliged to do is to 'publish the decree on the ministry's website'.

(6) affords the Health Minister the authority to alter, remove, and/or add to any of the above—except section (2)—'if deemed necessary to protect public health, and to do so 'either temporarily or in perpetuity'.

The law also mandated further jabs. In addition to the first two, a "booster" was mandated, and further jabs to be injected as decreed.

Parties

In the vote on Thursday evening, 137 delegates voted for and only 33 against it.

The "conservative" ÖVP and the Greens voted unanimously in favour of compulsory vaccination, while the FPÖ voted against it. In the case of the Social-Democrat SPÖ, one MP rebelled, while in the case of the liberal NEOS, four voted against.

Among the Greens, representative Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic stayed away from the vote. Internally in the party, she had announced that she did not support the new law. Two other Greens also did not appear.

At NEOS, Gerald Loacker, Johannes Margreiter, Stephanie Krisper and Fiona Fiedler openly opposed the law.

In the SPÖ, only trade unionist Josef Muchitsch voted against it. Four other members were excused "due to illness". However, three of them - the trade unionists Rudolf Silvan and Petra Vorderwinkler as well as SPÖ rebel Max Lercher - are said to be critical of the obligation to vaccinate.

Four members also stayed away from the ÖVP. At least one of them - Gudrun Kugler - was likely to be against the mandatory vaccination.

The little surprise of the evening was the voting behavior of Philippa Strache: she said yes to mandatory vaccination. Her husband Heinz-Christian Strache, on the other hand, regularly attends "anti-vaccination" demos of the FPÖ.

Suspension

The law was suspended in March 2022, when it was supposed to come into effect, presumably due to SDS calculations that the Russian-Ukrainian War that started in February would require all attention. The law was scrapped in June 2022.

 

Known Participants

2 of the 137 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Beate Meinl-Reisinger	Austrian up-and-coming politician who attended her first Bilderberg in 2022. Supported a compulsory Covid jab. "vaccine opponents are traitors"
Pamela Rendi-Wagner	Austrian physician and "vaccine expert" catapulted to Chairwoman of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) in November 2018. Bilderberg 2018.

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