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He said he had “great confidence” in the experts of the Ministry of Health and in the responsible departments where the regulation is being drawn up, both in terms of proportionality and constitutional conformity, he said on Saturday in the “lunch diary” Ö1.
He does not see a failure of the government, as criticized by the opposition. “We are all in a unique crisis,” he said. “Everyone, the federal government and we as a society, face new challenges every day.” Unfortunately, the number of infections remains “very, very high.” “As a society, we have to be patient” so that the situation in nursing homes or hospitals, for example, does not get worse.
When asked if she sees a loss of confidence in the population after Austria emerged well from the pandemic in the spring but was at the forefront of countries most severely affected by the pandemic in the fall, the minister said it was about to strike a balance. true. Everything must be done to protect life and health, but work and the economy must not be neglected either. And it is about not restricting too much fundamental rights and freedoms.
General compulsory vaccination “is not in debate”
Regarding any mandatory vaccinations, Zadic said this was not a problem. Now that the vaccination must be approved, “then we will see how it develops.” When asked if mandatory vaccination was not the “next logical step”, he said he would be careful to “talk about logical steps”. There is a “very clear vaccination plan” in the Ministry of Health. Nothing will change about that.
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Criticism of the statements came from the opposition: “It must finally be the end of the false law and regulation of the turquoise green federal government,” SPÖ justice spokeswoman Selma Yildirim said in a broadcast. Zadic’s reliance on the legal expertise of the Health Ministry “in the case of quasi-mandatory tests raises fears of bad things,” he said. Yildirim recalled the “high number of VfGH suspensions and the unclear and piecemeal regulations of the Ministry of Health on entry and residence bans, as well as the requirement for masks in locked rooms.” “This is a questionable way of dealing with the rule of law, because for individual citizens this means that there is a lack of legal certainty,” Yildirim said.
“It is not clear where Zadic gets his trust from”
The FPÖ judicial spokesman, Harald Stefan, was surprised by Zadic’s statements: “This confidence of the minister is very surprising, because the Ministry of Health has always been wrong in the past, if you only think about the various repealed ordinances, which ultimately turned out to be these were then illegal or unconstitutional. “
NEOS justice spokesman Johannes Margreiter was astonished: some measures of the federal government have already been lifted by the constitutional court, he recalled. “It is not clear where Minister Zadic got her confidence that it would be different this time. Unfortunately, the federal government has so far not respected the basic rights and proportionality of the measures. Chancellor Kurz later dismissed the criticism as subtle. This it’s not a political or legally clean approach. “
