The wait is strong, especially from the
no vax world.
The
Consulta
is called to express itself on the legitimacy of the
vaccination obligation
, introduced in 2021 as a tool to stem the
Covid
pandemic and from the outset at the center of fiery controversy, protests and appeals.
Today there will be the discussion of the parties in a public hearing, dedicated exclusively to this issue, and also unusual in numbers:
11 orders
with which
5 judicial offices
have raised doubts about the constitutionality of obligations and sanctions, about forty defenders of health workers and professors who refused to get vaccinated, three state
lawyers - Enrico De Giovanni, Federico Basilica and Beatrice Gaia Fiduccia
- in support of that decision by
the Draghi government
and also three constitutional judges:
Augusto Barbera, Stefano Petitti and Filippo Patroni Griffi .
Initially envisaged only for doctors and nurses by
decree 44 of April 1, 2021
, the obligation was gradually extended to other categories, such as
teachers, the armed forces and the police
, with related sanctions in the event of non-compliance, starting with the suspension from work and pay.
It was then gradually overcome, with the drop in infections: in June of this year the over 50s
, professors and law enforcement officers
were exempted .
While from November 1st it no longer applies even to those who work in the ward, the effect of the first decree of
the Meloni government
who wanted to bring forward to that date the deadline that the Draghi executive had set for December 31, with the aim of giving new life to an understaffed health system with the recovery of
4 thousand no-vax doctors
.
But the consequences of that obligation all remain:
the
Sum
, the single union of the military, recalled this on the eve of the ruling of the
Consulta , pointing out that the penalties for those who have not been vaccinated have also resulted in the
deduction of length of service
, weighing on your career and future retirement benefits.
The courts of Brescia
(with 6 orders),
Catania
and
Padua
, the
Lombardy Tar and the Council of Administrative Justice for the Sicilian Region
, which also raises the question of vaccine safety,
doubt the constitutional legitimacy of those rules .
The most critical of that legislation is the Lombardy Regional Administrative Court, which calls into question several constitutional principles: the guarantee of inviolable human rights, the right to work and remuneration, the protection of health, the principle of equality.
While the court of
Padua
also hypothesizes the violation of the
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.