The groups that oppose the mandatory vaccination card The threats to block roads and the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), in an attempt to lower the temperature of the conflict, intensified this Wednesday. he already talks about “making his measure more flexible”.
“We are seeing how we are going to make the requirement of the vaccination card more flexible so that no problems are generated. At no time have we indicated that the vaccine has to be by force, rather it has to be the will of each one, “said the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Freddy Mamani, through a press release.
The Government promulgated decrees 4640 and 4641 that They force to carry the vaccination card, which means that the vaccine is also mandatory. Groups from El Alto and the peasants of the La Paz highlands marched against these decrees and ask for their repeal.
As a first measure, the Government postponed the obligation to present the vaccination card until January 26, but the leaders of the protesting sectors affirm that that postponement “is a joke”, because after that date the document will be required again and they are against that requirement.
“We are not against the vaccine. Whoever wants to be vaccinated, but we cannot be forced to vaccinate. We have come out of the three waves with our medicines and who is going to certify that for us? ”, Asked the leader of the Civic Committee of El Alto, Gregorio Gómez.
The current government has been supported on different occasions by the inhabitants of El Alto and the peasant sector of the rural area, but they are these two groups are those who resist the vaccination card.
The legislative authority went to people’s consciences on Wednesday to get vaccinated and reiterated that this process is voluntary.
Meanwhile, justice has already ruled on two of the lawsuits that citizens and groups filed against the controversial decrees. It is about the popular action presented by five citizens against President Luis Arce. The procedure was carried out in the Fourth Constitutional Chamber of Santa Cruz, which rejected the claim.
The same happened with another similar lawsuit in La Paz de five citizens that they appeared before the Fourth Constitutional Chamber of La Paz and were unsuccessful; It remains to know the result of three other pending appeals in the two departments.