Citizens accuse the PP of preventing Murcia from knowing about the irregularities committed at the beginning of the immunization process
The parliamentary commission created in the Assembly to investigate the vaccination process in the Region of Murcia will be extinguished in the coming days, at the end of this Saturday the one-year period given to complete the work, without having met once since its creation.
Ciudadanos, which was the driving party behind this investigation commission, attacked the regional government “of PP and turncoats” for having prevented it from meeting for a year, “preventing Murcians from knowing the scope of the irregularities that were committed within of the protocol for immunization”, according to deputy Ana Martínez Vidal. The Board of Spokespersons rejected last week the PSOE’s request to extend the term for another six months.
“They have achieved what they were after from the beginning, to bury forever the vaccine-free bar for them and their relatives and that Murcians can never know which senior officials were vaccinated by skipping the protocol,” deputy Ana Martínez Vidal criticized, in reference to the scandal that LA VERDAD uncovered, when it reported that the then Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, and the leadership of his department were vaccinated without corresponding by protocol. “It is unacceptable that a year later we do not know the scope of this irregular vaccination and that everything is covered up in the most undemocratic way possible.”
Thus, this February 12 ends the one-year term set by the Chamber’s regulations for the investigation of the vaccine case, which once elapsed, marks the end of that investigation. Precisely last week it was proposed in the Board of Spokespersons to convene that commission in order to extend the initial term and be able to continue the investigation, but both the PP and the defectors and the former Vox deputies prevented it with their vote against.
Martínez Vidal has pointed out that, despite the fact that from now on it will not be possible to investigate the irregularities from the Assembly, «from Citizens we will continue to demand the list of those who, using their privileged status, were vaccinated ahead of the most vulnerable ».
“It is a shame”
The regional coordinator of Ciudadanos, María José Ros, has pointed out that it is “a shame that the PP and its accomplices have struck down the Investigation Commission in this way so that we never know who was vaccinated, skipping the protocol and harming the most vulnerable people . We see once again the deeply anti-democratic spirit of the PP that has prevented that investigation from being carried out in the regional Assembly », she has stressed.
The purpose of the Commission was to clarify, according to Ciudadanos, how decisions were made in a process in which at least 400 people were immunized outside the ministry’s protocol, at a time when vaccines were scarce and criteria were established very strict on those who should have priority: the toilets who were on the front line of covid and the elderly in the residences.
“We were the only autonomous community that interpreted the protocol in such a lax way and at a time when the fear of dying was atrocious and there were no vaccines for everyone. Many lives could have been saved with those 400 vaccines, that we know of, administered outside of protocol,” added Martínez Vidal.