A vaccination certificate should not become the only ticket to society, says ChristenUnie leader Segers, a guest in the NOS Radio 1 News and live on NOS Facebook. The ChristenUnie does not want to make vaccinations compulsory.
“Such a passport should not be used as a ticket to society, then it is indirect coercion.” Segers also wants a negative test certificate to give access to events. He does not yet know what the cabinet will come up with in the future, but if only the vaccination route is chosen, the ChristenUnie will come up with a proposal to do this differently, for example by combining testing and vaccination.
Segers himself says he will be vaccinated. When a viewer asks him whether he is not putting his fate in God’s hands, he says he will, but that it does not have to be at odds with vaccination. His parents – Segers comes from Lisse in the bulb region – once said to him: “We also take good care of the bulbs, so why not vaccinate the children”.
New cabinet ‘certainly not out of the question’
In the campaign it is noticeable that Segers is not exactly advertised that it was so much fun to co-rule. “But if it comes up again, it is certainly not ruled out”, says the ChristenUnie leader, who believes that co-ordination is always a marriage of convenience, an occasional coalition. “You can achieve a lot but also lose your soul.”
And even if it was compromising, the ChristenUnie was still able to achieve things, he thinks. This is what Segers calls the extra money that has come in for families, the climate agreement and the fight against forced prostitution.
Regardless of which parties will form, the reform of the labor market – on which the Borstlap committee also issued advice – will play an important role, says Segers. In any case, the ChristenUnie believes that there should be more security for people on the labor market again. “If there is one thing that this corona crisis has shown us, it is,” says Segers.
Bad moment
Segers is also in favor of an increase in the minimum wage and wants to tackle salaries in healthcare. He realizes that people have the impression that the ChristenUnie did not cooperate with this when the opposition came up with a proposal this summer. The governing parties then left the debate without voting.
“That was a bad moment,” Segers admits. But also later the ChristenUnie voted against, because it was a “too general” proposal. It concerned all salaries, and Segers especially wants the carers to improve. As far as the ChristenUnie is concerned, the medical specialists should no longer earn money, and should rather be employed.
In the discussion about the waiting period for abortion – a majority of the House wants to get rid of the mandatory five-day reflection period – Segers says that he is “not committed to those five days”, although the ChristenUnie voted against the proposal for abolition.
Segers believes it is important that there is a “careful process” on such a subject. Except in the case of rape. “Then someone must be helped immediately. As quickly as possible and immediately.” Earlier, the number four on the list of the ChristenUnie, Don Ceder, said that rape must also have a five-day reflection period.
Watch a part of the conversation with Segers here:
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