Erfurt (dpa/th) – The Thuringian CDU parliamentary group has met with its proposal to introduce a mandatory year of society with other groups, especially rejection. The Greens “fundamentally did not believe in compulsory or forced services,” said the parliamentary group leader Astrid Rothe-Beinlich on Friday in Erfurt during a state parliament debate in Erfurt. That is why they strictly rejected the Union’s current demands. In the past, for example, young people were obliged to work in the care of the elderly as part of community service, although they had no inner drive to do so. That didn’t really help either those doing community service or those being cared for.
Criticism of the Union’s proposal also came from the ranks of the FDP group and the Left Group, for example. According to the CDU parliamentary group leader Mario Voigt, it stipulates that young people should be obliged to do one year of service for society after they finish school – for example in sports or cultural clubs or in the armed forces.
