Letters from Vienna #9
On Thursday, 20th of January, the Austrian parliament voted in favour of mandatory vaccinations. According to an official statement: “The obligation to vaccinate against COVID-19 was approved by a large majority in the National Council. It applies to everyone over the age of 18 and comes into force at the beginning of February. The provisions on compulsory vaccination were amended after an assessment phase with a record number of statements and an expert hearing in the health committee. For example, the age limit was raised from 14 to 18 years. The vaccination requirement will be implemented in three phases, with an initial phase in effect until mid-March, during which no penalties will be imposed.”
Those who voted in favour included:
Angela Baumgartner
Nikolaus Berlakovich
Lukas Brandweiner
Romana Deckenbauer
Martina Diesner-Wais
Kurt Egger
Martin Engelberg
Franz Leonard Eßl
Klaus Fürlinger
Hermann Gahr
Wolfgang Gerstl
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 Kühlberger
Klaus Lindinger
Reinhold Lopatka
Nico Marchetti
Alexander Melchior
Andreas Minnich
I. Neumman-Hartberger
Maria-Theresia Niss
Gabriel Obernosterer
Friedrich Ofenauer
Andreas Ottenschläger
Elisabeth Pfurtscheller
Laurenz Pöttinger
Nikolaus Prinz
Bettina Rausch
Gertraud Salzmann
Werner Saxinger
Corinna Schwarzenberger
Elisabeth Scheucher-Pichler
Johannes 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 Becker
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 Yildrim
Nurten Yilmaz
Eva Blimlinger
Georg Bürstmayr
Meri Disoski
Faika El-Nagashi
Elisabeth Götze
Heike Grebien
Sybylle Hamann
Lukas Hammer
Markus Koza
Sigrid Maurer
Barbara Neßler
Agnes Prammer Sirkka
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
It is these 137 people who need not only to be named and shamed but held to account once the hearings for a second Nuremberg Trial are held.