site.btaTISP Move Draft Legislation Blocking Compulsory COVID-19 Vaccination
SC 16:33:01 08-09-2021
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114 POLITICS - TISP - VACCINATION - LEGISLATION
TISP Move Draft Legislation
Blocking Compulsory
COVID-19 Vaccination
Sofia, September 8 (BTA) - There Is Such a People (TISP) on Wednesday tabled draft legislation practically blocking the introduction of compulsory COVID-19 vaccination in Bulgaria.
The bill, supplementing the Health Act, expressly states that "immunization against COVID-19 is recommended and of an entirely voluntary nature". It was moved by TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov and another five MPs of that parliamentary group - the largest in the present legislature.
"The Health Act gives the Health Minister discretion in an epidemic emergency to order the Bulgarian population to get vaccinated against whatever he decides," Yordanov told journalists in Parliament on Wednesday. He said the idea of the bill was "to make it impossible for any health minister, if he panics or is pressured for some reasons, to oblige the entire population or groups of it to submit to compulsory vaccination."
The effective version of the Health Act empowers the health minister, in an epidemic emergency, to order "compulsory immunization and re-immunization of certain groups of the population other than those included in the immunization calendar" and "compulsory immunization and re-immunization with substances other than those included in the immunization calendar."
"Some ten days ago, the Health Minister issued an order pursuant to which part of employers order their staff to get vaccinated or get fired. He claims that there is no such thing in the order, but it does open such a loophole," the TISP MP explained, asked why these revisions are proposed. "This is not vaccine hesitancy, the point is about a particular vaccine which must be voluntary because it is practically still in third phase of clinical trials," he specified.
In their reasons to the bill, the sponsors argue that the COVID-19 are "a novel and not thoroughly researched medicinal product" and that their long-term side effect are unclear for lack of time to study them. "A number of experts warn of the risk of autoimmune diseases and cancer being activated [by the COVID-19 vaccines]," the reasons say, noting that the vaccines used in the EU and Bulgaria have been granted a conditional marketing authorization by the European Medicines Agency, "which means that the standard conditions and requirements for their trials and safety checks have not been fulfilled." DS/LG
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LG1632.114
114 POLITICS - TISP - VACCINATION - LEGISLATION
TISP Move Draft Legislation
Blocking Compulsory
COVID-19 Vaccination
Sofia, September 8 (BTA) - There Is Such a People (TISP) on Wednesday tabled draft legislation practically blocking the introduction of compulsory COVID-19 vaccination in Bulgaria.
The bill, supplementing the Health Act, expressly states that "immunization against COVID-19 is recommended and of an entirely voluntary nature". It was moved by TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov and another five MPs of that parliamentary group - the largest in the present legislature.
"The Health Act gives the Health Minister discretion in an epidemic emergency to order the Bulgarian population to get vaccinated against whatever he decides," Yordanov told journalists in Parliament on Wednesday. He said the idea of the bill was "to make it impossible for any health minister, if he panics or is pressured for some reasons, to oblige the entire population or groups of it to submit to compulsory vaccination."
The effective version of the Health Act empowers the health minister, in an epidemic emergency, to order "compulsory immunization and re-immunization of certain groups of the population other than those included in the immunization calendar" and "compulsory immunization and re-immunization with substances other than those included in the immunization calendar."
"Some ten days ago, the Health Minister issued an order pursuant to which part of employers order their staff to get vaccinated or get fired. He claims that there is no such thing in the order, but it does open such a loophole," the TISP MP explained, asked why these revisions are proposed. "This is not vaccine hesitancy, the point is about a particular vaccine which must be voluntary because it is practically still in third phase of clinical trials," he specified.
In their reasons to the bill, the sponsors argue that the COVID-19 are "a novel and not thoroughly researched medicinal product" and that their long-term side effect are unclear for lack of time to study them. "A number of experts warn of the risk of autoimmune diseases and cancer being activated [by the COVID-19 vaccines]," the reasons say, noting that the vaccines used in the EU and Bulgaria have been granted a conditional marketing authorization by the European Medicines Agency, "which means that the standard conditions and requirements for their trials and safety checks have not been fulfilled." DS/LG
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