If the VfGH considers a vaccination requirement to be constitutional, the state party leader LHStv. Manfred Haimbuchner and the Linz City Councilor for Health and State Parliament mandate Michael Raml in an online press conference on Tuesday to go to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Haimbuchner currently sees not only a health crisis but also a “constitutional crisis” and a “crisis of freedom”. Freedom does not mean that you can do what you want, but freedom means to be able to lead a self-determined life. Raml sees the rule of law as a “victim of the so-called crisis management of the federal government”. The planned assessment period for the compulsory vaccination – four weeks “in the middle of the Christmas season, in the middle of the vacation time” – he considers to be far too short. Haimbuchner announced that one would first proceed against the mandatory vaccination in a parliamentary and then also legally. He does not yet know all the details, but “what has been leaked so far will not find our approval”.
The FPÖ is also obviously looking for ways to suspend the mandatory vaccination before it comes into force: It needs the possibility of an urgent procedure before the Constitutional Court, according to Raml, which must come at the same time as the decision on the mandatory vaccination. He sees Germany as a role model, where the Federal Constitutional Court can regulate a situation by means of an interim order if this “is necessary to ward off serious disadvantages or to prevent threatening violence for the common good,” as he explained. Because in Austria there is only a subsequent control of norms by the Constitutional Court. Should the Constitutional Court ultimately consider the obligation to vaccinate to be constitutional, this should be accepted in a constitutional state, even if one does not find oneself in the decision, emphasized Haimbuchner, but: There is also the ECHR.
“Austria is not doing so badly”
Both he and Raml pointed to the massive impact of the lockdowns on the economy and on the mental health of children, but also of the elderly. Haimbuchner is convinced that lockdowns can be restricted with a number of measures, for example by building up appropriate PCR test capacities. In addition, he again called for antibody tests to be able to assess the immunization of the population, for air filters, hygiene concepts and “the mask will also contribute one way or the other”. The procedure to no longer classify vaccinated people as K1 people has to be changed again. Nursing staff must also be better paid and incentives to work in the health sector must be created. 2G didn’t bring anything, but he understood that “large crowds should be avoided,” said Haimbuchner.
As far as the vaccination is concerned, “first of all, you have to know to what extent the vaccination really works,” said Haimbuchner, but at the same time emphasized that it probably prevents severe courses, “I don’t doubt that”. How one could increase the vaccination coverage without compulsory vaccination, he left open, because: “We already have a relatively high vaccination rate. If you compare that with other countries, Austria is not that bad.”
Source From: Nachrichten
