02/11/2021 2:17 PM
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Updated 02/11/2021 2:42 PM
Carlos Heller asked Sergio Massa to begin to manage before the Government the declaration of
"essential personnel"
for all members of the Chamber of Deputies, so that legislators can be vaccinated and thus end the virtual sessions.
"I asked for the floor to suggest to you as president of the chamber, that you initiate the steps so
that the deputies
that make up this body
are included among the essential workers
and we can access vaccines as quickly as possible," said the deputy of the Frente de Everybody.
Heller explained that if the two corresponding doses of the coronavirus vaccine are applied
"virtuality would cease to be a necessity"
and was given as an example.
"I
cannot go to the camera in these conditions
and there are many like me. But if we agreed, not under the table, but in a transparent way, stating that we are one of the powers of the State and that we have a need to function,
we could have in the short term a solution to something that worries us
, "he added.
But it was his block pair Cecilia Moreau, who asked for the floor to answer.
"Each one will be vaccinated when their turn comes
,
" he
said.
He added: "Deputy Heller may have his turn earlier because of his age, in the City I don't know what the protocol is like."
And he asked to continue with the parliamentary work plan.
Carlos Heller, in his speech in Deputies.
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From the opposition, it was Waldo Wolff who expressed his disagreement with Heller's proposal.
"Politicians who are not in the risk group do not have to have advantages," he
said.
And he expressed his
"strongest opposition"
to politicians obtaining some "perk" above the rest of the citizens, regarding vaccination against Covid-19.
It should be remembered that
the State established as a priority for vaccination
health personnel, personnel of the Armed Forces, Security and prison services, adults between 18 and 59 years old who present risk factors, and teaching and non-teaching personnel, older 60 and 70 who live in nursing homes, and other strategic populations that define the jurisdictions, inhabitants of popular neighborhoods, homeless people, native peoples, people deprived of liberty, migrants.
The Chamber of Deputies began meeting after noon to debate a set of economic projects, among which is an initiative that establishes that negotiations on public debt with any type of international financing must have parliamentary approval.
This is the first special session of the extraordinary period of the body and an extensive debate is expected, so Heller's request generated discomfort among his peers, due to the fact that it delayed the start of parliamentary work, as demanded by Deputy Moreau .
Mario Negri withdrew from the venue due to the positive test of his partner Gustavo Menna.
Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi.
Meanwhile, the president of the Juntos por el Cambio interblock, Mario Negri, together with a group of deputies, withdrew from the premises, because Gustavo Menna tested positive for coronavirus.
Negri clarified that the deputy Gustavo Menna already had Covid and was discharged 14 days ago.
"He traveled from Chubut with the epidemiological discharge to Buenos Aires. However,
the saliva test that
all deputies and advisers
do in Congress
prior to each session
gave him positive,
" said the Cordovan.
As they explained in the interblock, the health explanation is that all those who had Covid have the virus in their body for several more weeks, in a residual way.
"In addition to the fact that all the consultations to epidemiological specialists made by Negri indicated that it
is extremely unlikely that Menna could be contagious after fourteen days after discharge
, due to the low viral load he has, the head of the Interblock JxC requested that both Menna and the deputies who have been close contacts of him participate in the session remotely, "said the deadlock in a press release.
