07/27/2021 11:48 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/27/2021 12:47 PM
Minutes after Health Minister Carla Vizzotti announced the purchase of Pfizer vaccines, the main opposition leaders focused on the "delays" with which the agreement was reached.
They spoke of "putting ideology aside" and emphasized that "thousands of deaths" could have been avoided.
"As a result of the effort of months, yesterday a binding agreement was signed with the Pfizer laboratory, it is an agreement for
20 million doses of vaccines during 2021
", Vizzotti had highlighted this Tuesday at a press conference.
Although the agreement is auspicious news, considering that this American dose is enabled for adolescents between 12 and 17 years old, the opposition did not let the delays in the agreement pass.
One of the first to refer to this was the president of PRO, Patricia Bullrich, who said that "thousands of deaths" could have been avoided.
"Finally, the Pfizer vaccine ceased to be the delivery of national sovereignty, after dark turns and inflamed speeches. With 8 months of delay,
Argentines will have a vaccine that would have prevented thousands of deaths
. Now we will receive it to save our lives." The former Minister of Security wrote from her Twitter account.
Finally, the Pfizer vaccine stopped being the delivery of national sovereignty, after dark turns and inflamed speeches.
With an 8-month delay, we Argentines will have a vaccine that would have prevented thousands of deaths.
Now we will receive it to save our lives.
- Patricia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) July 27, 2021
Almost simultaneously, Mario Negri, head of the interblock in Deputies, published a message loaded with irony: "Exorbitant delays from the 'friendly' laboratories, Biden's donation, pressure from parents of children who need vaccines and from the opposition. And one day the government signed with Pfizer!
There were no glaciers to hand over
and we were not the world's toys. Ideology had to be dropped. "
The Cordovan deputy thus referred to the statements of the surgeon doctor and advisor to the Buenos Aires government Jorge Rachid, who had assured that the pharmaceutical company requested natural resources from Argentina in exchange for the contract.
"We opposed that there are no seizable assets in Argentina. They then asked for a new law with seizable assets, which included oil, glaciers, bonds and pin pun pan," he had slipped in a radio interview.
Exorbitant delays from "friendly" laboratories, Biden's donation, pressure from parents of kids who need vaccines, and from the opposition.
And one day the government signed with Pfizer!
There were no glaciers to hand over, nor were we toys of the world.
Ideology had to be dropped.
- Mario Raúl Negri (@marioraulnegri) July 27, 2021
For the president of the national UCR, Alfredo Cornejo, the agreement came "a year late and we will never know why."
Another who joined the controversy is the former Minister of Health,
Adolfo Rubinstein
, who spoke of "sainete" and said that the delays responded to "ideological inclinations."
The sanitarista added that
"the Government privileged its geopolitical partners Russia and China and its local partners
.
"
The signing of the agreement with Pfizer is good news.
But it comes 9 months after the sanction of the vaccine law and a few days after we know Nicolini's letter.
There is no longer any doubt that all this farce with Pfizer responded to ideological inclinations.
- Adolfo Rubinstein (@RubinsteinOk) July 27, 2021
For her part, Graciela Ocaña, who accompanies Diego Santilli in the list of candidates for the province of Buenos Aires, expressed herself along the same lines: "A year later, Argentines will be able to receive Pfizer vaccines. In the end, it was not the Vaccine Law
was not the word negligence or sovereignty
; it was the geopolitical agreements signed with Russia that deprived Argentines of having 13 million Pfizer vaccines at this point ".
Graciela Ocaña's tweet.
In addition, other deputies and leaders of Together for Change questioned the agreement for its "delay" and mentioned the more than
100,000 deaths
that the country has registered since the beginning of the pandemic.
More than 100,000 dead and 5 million infected so that they stop playing geopolitics and think about the health of Argentines.
Today you are no longer ashamed of what Pfizer asks for?
Or is it that the "friends of the difficult" failed us?
They should apologize to society.
https://t.co/QJyykpx5Tr
- Ricardo Buryaile (@BuryaileRicardo) July 27, 2021
Today the Government agreed with Pfizer, a year passed, the first proposal had been presented by the laboratory on July 25, 2020. A year passed, 104 thousand deaths passed.
- Luis Petri (@luispetri) July 27, 2021
They confirm to us that they did not protect our sovereignty, they protected their interests.
Dreams, moments and many lives were lost.
The Pfizers are late and the product of electoral speculation.
Very sad.
- Maricel Etchecoin (@metchecoin) July 27, 2021
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