Speeches

Madam President, the evolution of the pandemic, the prevalence of mutations with possible consequences on the effectiveness of vaccines, combined with the low vaccination rate, the sanitary rubber protocols, which expose people to new risks in the interests of tourism and transport groups, confirm that the fight against COVID-19 is not only tackled with the necessary vaccination. The anti-people policy of contradictions and backlashes fuels fear, hesitation, irrationality, undermining vaccination, while the debate on patents in an environment of vaccine and drug control by monopoly groups marks a new round of profitability and competition. The protection of the health of the people is not done with individual responsibility, as you constantly project. We need to strengthen the popular struggle for effective measures, decisive shielding of the public health system and primary care, measures in workplaces and schools, utilization of all safe and effective vaccines. The experience of the peoples highlights the need for vaccine medicines, not a commodity for business groups to treasure, but a right in the context of a socialized pharmaceutical industry, overturning the barriers imposed by capitalist profitability and the commercialization of health, to which the bourgeois political forces and the European Union are bowing.