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Montevideo (AFP) – The Uruguayan government questioned the impartiality of a judge who summoned him this Wednesday for an appeal to suspend the vaccination of children against covid-19, which is voluntary.
Representatives of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) filed a challenge against Judge Alejandro Recarey, who on Saturday called a hearing for the authorities and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer to demand detailed information on the vaccines administered during the pandemic and the contracts signed.
In the document, the MSP highlights the “lack of impartiality of the judge for having given his previous opinion regarding the same issue” of vaccination, according to a statement released on Twitter.
It also alleges that the appeal was made “out of time”, and underlines the non-compliance “with other requirements provided for in the amparo law”.
“The vaccines are effective and safe, they managed to reduce mortality and infections, they are a mechanism to protect the life, health and integrity of people, they were approved and supplied by the competent body,” the ministry said.
“The judge’s actions constituted a clear violation of the separation of powers, invading health powers, in charge of the Executive Branch,” he added.
Judge Recarey, who acts as a substitute in a Contentious-Administrative court, gave rise to the appeal of the lawyer Maximiliano Dentone to suspend the inoculation campaign “in pediatric ages”.
In Uruguay, children from 5 years of age onwards are authorized to be vaccinated.
“Substances are being inoculated that we do not know the components they have,” Dentone told reporters before the court, calling the vaccination process “manifestly illegal and dangerous.”
Early in the morning, a group of people stationed themselves at the gates of the court, in the center of Montevideo, with signs that read “Children do not prick themselves with experiments” or “Luis, are you going to let them kill our children by inoculating them?” in reference to President Luis Lacalle Pou.
The magistrate demanded that the Executive and the US laboratory provide documentation on the composition of the vaccines, including the possible presence of “graphene oxide” or “nanotechnological elements.”
It also called for studies to demonstrate the “harmlessness” of “the substance called messenger RNA” and demanded to reveal the terms of the contracts signed between the government and Pfizer to check whether they contain clauses “of civil indemnity or criminal impunity for suppliers” regarding possible Adverse effects.
The MSP affirmed this Wednesday that it answered “all the technical questions formulated by the judge” and announced that this information will be publicly known.
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