Circus in Parliament: Several MEPs ignored COVID rules! The proposal for new measures passed in the 1st reading – Topky.sk

Members of parliament have been debating the government’s proposal for pandemic measures since nine in the morning. The government has delivered an amendment to the laws in connection with the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Parliament will deal with the proposal in an accelerated legislative procedure. However, they had to adjourn the meeting at the outset.

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The situation is critical: We are in danger of a humanitarian DISASTER! If the new measures are not complied with, we will tighten them

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Updated 15:57 Today, MEPs are still debating proposals for new measures in committee.

Updated 15:52 At the 2nd reading, Members will resume five tomorrow morning from nine. In the end, Grendel expelled Marian Kotleba and Medvecký from the room, who did not have a veil. MEPs are still awaiting the vote today and will continue their debates.

Updated 15:49 The bill passed in the 1st reading. Negotiations on this item will be suspended and the committees must meet. The discussion is likely to continue tomorrow, with the 2nd reading.

Updated 15:42 Members will vote whether proposal for new measures passes in 1st reading.

Updated 15:36 The debate on 1 reading has ended. “Most of the posts that have been made here belong to the field of medicine called pseudology fiction or word salad. I’m not going to break it down, “ stated.

Updated 14:40 Question Time is over, and three other Members are registered in the debate on the first reading – Schlosár, Mizík and Suja.

Updated 14:23 The Minister of Health asked deputies to consider their words and not to upset society. “Mandatory vaccination has never been and will never be on this government’s agenda,” he responded by saying that while they were discussing it, it would not be implemented.

Updated 14:20 Parliament Speaker Boris Kollár also commented on the situation in the parliament. According to him, it is worrying that something similar will happen again. “If this happens again, we will probably come to the fact that we will need a parliamentary guard, as in the Czech Republic. Kollár said.

Updated 14:00 MEPs continue with question time.

Updated to 11:59 The sitting is adjourned for the 14th MEPs and the Question Time continues, after which negotiations on the measures continue. The abortion should be voted on today at five o’clock.

Updated 11:51 The government should explain anti-pandemic measures to people clearly and truthfully, as well as what they are targeting and how they should have an effect. Peter Pellegrini, the head of the non-parliamentary Voice, told the press. He also called on people to be careful and to follow the measures. According to him, the Ministry of Health should also publish more data on hospitalizations so that people are not subject to misinformation. However, they do not support the proposal.

Updated 11:37 Deputies Medvecký and Krupa left the hall and were alerted from the morning because they did not have a respirator on their faces. MP Jozef Šimko has an exception.

Updated 11:29 Fica was expelled from the meeting room because he has no respirator or drape, he wears a protective shield. “I’m a cardiac, I can’t wear a veil or a respirator,” said Fico. “As far as I know, the ordinance does not state that the cardiac cannot wear protective equipment,” Grendel responded, inviting Fica to present the document. There was a shout in the hall.

Updated 11:26 “Then we wonder if there is aggression and non-compliance when it is here in parliament as in the fourth price,” Bittó Cigániková responded. “You have to respond to MP Fico,” Grendel warned her. In response, Cigániková reiterated that tests for employers will be reimbursed.

Source: Topky / Maarty

Updated 11:03 According to Fica, the health minister backed away after harsh statements from employers. “Suddenly there’s something else in the law,” said Fico. Ministers and the Prime Minister told the press yesterday that the bill would be amended. This concerned in particular the reimbursement of tests, which had not yet been set.

Updated 10:59 Robert Fico, Member of Parliament, will now speak in the debate, followed by Andrej Stančík, Member of Parliament. Fico complains that the president wants to silence opposition MPs. “We will not be silent.”

Source: Topky / Maarty

Updated 10:53 Bittó Cigániková assured MP Beluský that employers would have tests for employees from the state.

Updated 10:47 ĽSNS deputies turn numbers. They emphasize the fact that 20 percent of hospitals are vaccinated. The fact that they are mostly elderly people, or people with other diseases, but neglected. Mizík and Sulanová, for example, made such arguments.

Source: TASR / Martin Baumann

Updated 10:31 According to Beluský, COVID is transmitted mainly by vaccinated people who do not fight. However, experts around the world have shown in several studies that vaccinated people have less chance of becoming infected and transmitting the virus. Yesterday, Prime Minister Eduard Heger also talked to experts about the difference between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated as part of a discussion on the measures. “The difference is significant. The vaccinated person spreads the virus much less,” said Heger. Opposition members are once again bending the facts in their favor.

Source: TASR / Martin Baumann

Updated 10:25 The general debate is open. Five Members signed up. Marti Beluský from ĽSNS was the first to speak. “This law is actually a law that introduces a test tax,” he said at the beginning.

Updated 10:22 The government will discuss changes in the measures in the accelerated procedure. Lengvarsky reads the details of the measures.

Source: TASR / Martin Baumann

Updated 10:10 Jana Vaľová, a member of the Smer party, made a factual remark, continuing the rhetoric of her parent party and talking about restricting people’s rights. “I don’t condemn the vaccines, but I can’t be vaccinated,” she said. Coalition MPs oppose her. “Then please, Mrs. Vaľová, present us a solution,” said Bittó Cigániková.

Updated 9:46 The meeting continues. Laurenčík stated that Mazurek should leave the lectern because he broke the rule and does not have a respirator in place. The chairman of the OĽaNO parliamentary group, Michal Šipoš, presented a proposal to keep it in place during the debate, as Mazurek refuses to leave the lectern. “Reason. Obstruction of a third-year student, Milanka Mazureka,” said Šipoš.

Source: National Council of the Slovak Republic

Updated 9:25 The meeting was adjourned for 15 minutes.

This Mr. Mengele …

In the morning, the Lengvarsky submitted a proposal to the parliament for accelerated procedures. The Health Committee recommended this, and deputies began negotiations on a shortened legislative procedure for the government’s proposal, which regulates coronavirus measures. Right at the beginning, the Vice-President of the Parliament, Milan Laurenčík, warned the deputies to put on the veil as needed. “I will ask all the deputies in the Chamber to put on their respirators as needed, especially when we go to negotiate measures.” stated.

Former ĽSNS MP Milan Mazurek was the first to introduce himself in the debate. But he didn’t even have time to speak, as he refused to put on a respirator. “Dear government, because I can’t even call it the Slovak government. This is Mr Mengele … ‘ Mazurek managed to say in the introduction, thus referring to the Minister of Health Lengvarski. Member of Parliament Ján Benčík immediately drew his attention to this.

A rift right at the beginning

The Deputy Chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic warned him again. Miroslav Suja, who was holding a drink in his hand, also came to the counter. He mocked the deputies for drinking, so he didn’t have to have anything on his face. “Mr. Benčík told me to drop out. You like to select people, don’t you? ” Mazurek attacked. “I don’t have a problem with that, they have a problem with it, they caused it,” carried on.

Mazurek, Suja et al. they had only a veil on and had them on under their noses. Laurenčík pointed out that respirators were available in front of the meeting room, and Mazurek refused to put it on. The head of the medical committee, Janka Bittó Cigániková, also spoke to him. The chairman called on Mazurek three times, along with other excoleurs, to put on respirators. They refused. “By your behavior, you are disturbing the order in the hall,” he warned him again.

“Am I acting like a kid?” However, you don’t mind. You are restricting my right to act as a Member of Parliament. “ Mazurek complained, refusing to put on a respirator and refusing to move. “Mr Member, as you have disobeyed me and I report Mr Krupa from the Chamber,” said Laurenčík. “I’m not leaving, I’ll be here until the evening,” regoval trucovito Mazurek. The meeting was adjourned for 15 minutes.

New package of measures

The draft of the new legislation speaks, for example, about the possibility that an employee would have to prove himself / herself with a certificate of vaccination against COVID-19, a certificate of overcoming the disease or a negative test result when entering work.

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Following the agreement of the fast-track regime, Members should proceed to first reading. The committees should then meet. They should discuss the proposal in the second reading on Friday (November 12). A vote on the law on helping pregnant women, tabled by Anna Záborská (OĽANO), is also waiting for deputies on Thursday evening. They also have a vote on whether to move the hospital reform proposal to second reading. MEPs have exhausted almost all items on the 48th session, which has been running for four weeks.