The president of the socialist party Magnette: “It is the only solution.” The Minister of Health: “Drastic measures will be needed everywhere”
Brussels. “Compulsory vaccination is the only solution” to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Belgium we are starting to consider the hypothesis which has been set aside. Paul Magnette relaunches the debate and shakes up the Belgian government alliance. The president of the French-speaking Socialist Party (PS) finds the courage to express himself clearly, breaking the taboo of stinging without “ifs” and “buts”, a hot topic both in Belgium and throughout the European Union. He shares his thoughts in the interview granted to SudInfo, one of the main French-speaking newspapers in Belgium. Here he suggests the idea of overcoming the policy of measures differentiated by regions. “The only coherent solution is compulsory vaccination for everyone, starting from the age of 18”.
The press statements by the leader of the Socialist Party arrive close to the meeting of the Conciliation Committee, the body called to take measures to stop the fourth wave of infections. The measures have already been anticipated, following leaks that have produced more than a few discontent among insiders. Mandatory telework for everyone until Christmas, compulsory masks from the age of nine, closure of night activities (especially discos, karaoke rooms), stop to contact sports, cancellation of student recreational activities.
The Minister for Health, the Flemish Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit, former Flemish Socialist Party), agrees with the new lockdown. “Drastic measures will be needed everywhere,” he argues, but at the moment the first to come out on the vaccine obligation is Paul Magnette.
Belgium currently sees a federal government resulting from a grand coalition: French-speaking and Flamboyant liberals (MR and Open Vld), French-speaking and Flemish Greens (Ecolo and Groen), Flemish Christian Democrats (Cd & V), French-speaking and Flemish socialists (PS and Vooruit ). The position taken by the leader of the French-speaking socialists forces the grand coalition into an internal confrontation.
Up to now, the agreement reached between the various parties was in the sense of vaccination obligation only for medical and hospital staff. Those who refuse will be exempted from work (however, they will receive unemployment support), but now the game is raised. For the socialists, it is time to put an end to the policy of incentives to the injection of anti-covid serum and foresee a real obligation. Pending the announced lockdown and its formalization for tomorrow, Belgium challenges the people of the “no-vax” and those who cry out to the conspiracy of the health dictatorship.
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