The mayor of Schiedam said on the local channel Schie TV that vaccination against corona should be mandatory. “Sometimes as a government you have to say: now it is mandatory to vaccinate. I think it is a shame that the cabinet is not taking that step.”
Article 11 Constitution
To back up his case, Lamers added that there are “a lot of mandatory vaccinations.” “As a child you already received a whole package. You cannot refuse, it is simply mandatory. Polio is also mandatory,” said Lamers.
However, the reality in the Netherlands is that no vaccination is mandatory. This stems from Article 11 of the Constitution. It states that everyone has the right to ‘inviolability of his body’.
On the basis of this article of the constitution, Minister Hugo de Jonge of Public Health emphasized at the beginning of September during the discussion of the temporary Corona law that no one will be obliged to get vaccinated.
Concerned people from Schiedam
Schie TV reports that the DENK faction in the Schiedam municipal council has received ‘many signals’ from ‘concerned people from Schiedam’ about mandatory vaccination. DENK demands clarification from Lamers about his statements.
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