| María Marín assures that we are "facing a case of manual influence peddling" and that the vaccinated public officials "have taken advantage of their position" | This morning, Podemos Región de Murcia has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office to "get to the bottom of the vaccine scandal." The party's regional spokesperson, María Marín, has considered that the cases known so far do not constitute "only human error or unethical conduct," but also that "an alleged illegality has been committed, which has consequences that go beyond beyond politics.
" Therefore, for the deputy "the resignation is not enough" and with the complaint they intend "for the prosecutor to investigate which people made the decisions that have led to the vaccination of a group of senior officials and not the priority people", in addition to to determine "if these people have committed any crime." A complaint that from Podemos understands that it is "the minimum"they can do for "first-line health workers and for the people most vulnerable to covid." Marín recalled that counselor Villegas and his senior team have been implicated in this scandal, as well as the mayor of Molina and the doctor who improperly vaccinated her, despite the fact that "political positions and officials are not for do favors, especially when lives are at stake.
" The deputy considers that in this case "they are not personal favors", but that we are facing "cases of influence peddling that we must banish from our society." The regional spokesperson for Podemos has highlighted that the penal code prohibits any official or authority from using their position to obtain any type of benefit (art.
428 Penal Code), "like the one that has been here.
In addition, Marín has put on the table that "the counselor Villegas and the high officials of the Ministry of Health could have incurred in a crime of prevarication".
The deputy has shown her skepticism at the impossibility that "no one in the Ministry realized that the vaccination of high-ranking officials is a direct attack on the vaccination protocol of the Interterritorial Council", so that with his complaint, Podemos intends that it be investigated "if the Ministry of Health and the Murcian Health Service acted arbitrarily, mounting their own VIP vaccination campaign, knowing that their actions were unfair and contrary to the law.
" Podemos has also denounced "the violation of the most elementary principles of any action in public health", such as the principle of equity and the principle of transparency (art.
3), "by the López Miras government and the Ministry of Health ".
Marín has considered that there has been "serious damage to the health of those people who are a priority and have not been vaccinated" and of the population in general, because "positions of the PP have crept in, such as Minister Villegas, or the mayor of the PSOE of Molina, Esther Clavero ".
The complaint of Podemos to the prosecutor's office can have serious consequences for those who have allegedly used their public position to access vaccination before their due, they say from Podemos in the statement sent to Murcia .com.
Depending on the severity of the damage, those who have maneuvered to get vaccinated or vaccinate others outside the protocol face fines ranging from 3,000 to 600,000 euros.
Finally, Marín has reiterated that from Podemos "we are going to continue demanding exemplarity." "We are not bluffing like some, nor do we ask for resignations a la carte, according to the color of the card.
All the senior officials who have participated in this scandal are superfluous in politics without exceptions," the deputy concluded.
