The Supreme Court has given a blow to the Basque Superior Court of Justice (TSJPV) by rectifying its ruling and endorsing the implementation of the covid passport in the autonomous community to access certain places and nightlife establishments. The Administrative Litigation Chamber has upheld the appeal of the regional government against the resolution of the Basque court, which rejected the implementation of the certificate in a controversial non-unanimous resolution. The TSJPV ruled against the mandatory nature of the document to enter restaurants with capacity for more than 50 diners or discos, dance halls, party rooms with shows, music bars or karaoke, as requested by the Basque Government. In fact, in a sentence known as “karaoke”, the Basque Superior explained that creativity could not be restricted to citizens by limiting their artistic creation, “for example, when it comes to karaoke.” The Basque president, Iñigo Urkullu, has assured after hearing the news that the passport will be one more tool to stop the contagion of covid: “It is one more tool that will allow us to modulate the measures that we have and those that we must implement. March. Everything is going to be necessary to stop the contagion and guarantee public health in a moment of worsening of the pandemic ”, said Urkullu.
The Basque Government has reported that it is going to activate the health emergency, although its spokesperson, Bingen Zupiria, and the Minister of Health, Gotzone Sagardui, have refused to assess the decision as they do not have an “official communication”. Nor have they specified the times in which the health emergency will be declared, until they know in depth the resolution of the Supreme Court. “As soon as we have that information, it is the intention of the Lehendakari, at the request of the Minister of Health, to decree the health emergency. The anti-pandemic law would come into force and the corresponding measures would be adopted ”, he pointed out.
The Fourth Section of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court includes the individual vote of magistrate Antonio Fonseca-Herrero. The latter has also ruled against validating the use of this digital certificate in Galicia in the month of September. Thus, in the resolution known this Tuesday, the court follows the criteria of the Prosecutor’s Office, which was in favor of endorsing the covid certificate because the requirements of proportionality and necessity concur. A decision similar to the one adopted in Galicia, where it also authorized the introduction of the passport in nightlife venues. The Basque Executive was initially unfavorable to appeal to the Supreme Court, but it was the PSE-EE, its partner in government, who encouraged Iñigo Urkullu to go to the high court.
In the absence of knowing the details, the Supreme Court overturns the argument of the Basque court that argued that this measure would limit fundamental rights of those over 12 years of age – the segment of the population that so far can be vaccinated – not immunized while it is allowed the entry into establishments of children under that age, which the Executive itself considers the sector that “most contagious.” He also criticizes the intention to impose this restriction throughout the Basque Country.
For the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country, “imposing the requirement of a passport indiscriminately” lacked justification, and even more so “when it is simultaneously recognized that the effects of contagion on those vaccinated are not relevant.” The Supreme Court ruling that corrects said decision will be published in the coming days.
The Basque Country has registered 1,274 new positives in covid-19 this past Monday, which is 611 more than the previous day; the accumulated incidence rate in 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants has risen to 509.75, which represents 38 points more than in the last report; There are 49 patients admitted to the ICU, two more than on Sunday; and there are 229 people admitted to the plant, 15 more. With these data, Sagardui stressed that the upward trend of the pandemic is “clear.”
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