The controversy over Pfizer was reactivated at the start of the session of Deputies. The Together for Change bloc lobbied to vote on the project that eliminates the word “negligence” of the Vaccine Law -one of the obstacles to the agreement with that laboratory- and another to guarantee the vaccination of children and adolescents with comorbidities, but the Frente de Todos blocked the treatment.
“We will not continue to change the laws every week if the laboratory does not agree“, explained the president of the Health Commission, the official Pablo Yedlin, and recalled that it is the Executive that is negotiating to unlock the contract with the company.
The motion to deviate from the rules of procedure – which needed a three-quarters majority to advance – fell with 122 votes against and 112 in favor.
The request of Together for Change was accompanied by the two left-wing deputies, the three Lavagnists, the missionary Ricardo Wellbach and the Rio Negro, Luis Di Giácomo.
Together with the Frente de Todos voted the bulk of the Federal Unit and Equity interblock, the four Cordobes who respond to Governor Juan Schiaretti, and Alma Sapag from the Neuquén Popular Movement.
The PRO deputy, Carmen Polledo, asked that the law presented by Together for Change be voted for remove the word “negligence” from the vaccine law.
“We were unaware that that word was an obstacle to signing the contract when we approved it. If there were also ideological or geopolitical reasons, I’m not worried. But this is the only vaccine authorized in the country for 12 to 18 years. It is not a whim. They are the great absentees from this vaccination plan. “Polledo complained.
Radical legislator Claudia Najul, for her part, requested a deviation from the regulation to vote on the project of her authorship that proposes to give priority to children and adolescents with pre-existing diseases.
“There are two vaccines – Pfizer and Moderna – that are used in the world for the 12-18 age group. We are buying millions of doses and We would only need 100,000 to solve this problem“Najul pointed out and added:” These boys have been totally locked up for a year and a half, encapsulated, separated from their brothers, grandparents, they don’t see the street or the school. There are parents who lost their jobs because they won’t go to work for fear of bringing the virus home. “
Finally, Rubén Manzi (Civic Coalition) asked to discuss a draft request for a report due to the “delays” in applying vaccines.
