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Victory for Individual Rights in Spain: Constitutional Tribunal Rules against a Regional Law Permitting Mandatory Vaccination

Jeanne Smits : Jul 30, 2021
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(Spain) — [LifeSiteNews.com] In a remarkable victory for individual freedoms with regard to the COVID-19 experimental "vaccine," the Constitutional Tribunal of Spain has refused to lift the suspension of a regional law which provided for the possibility of making vaccines mandatory in health crises. The Tribunal based its reasoning on the fact that the vaccine mandate "would be likely to cause certain and effective damages that may be irreparable or difficult to repair, insofar as vaccination may be imposed against the will of the citizen."  (Screengrab image)

The Tribunal's decision, signed on July 20 and made public on July 23 on its website, suspended a general disposition of the Xunta de Galicia (northwestern Spain) that aimed to give the autonomous region power to set up local sanitary restrictions, compulsory isolation and prophylactic measures. These include mandatory "vaccination or immunization" with regard to any infectious and transmissible disease—not only COVID-19. 

The bill dates back to February 25, 2021, modifying previous regional legislation on "Galician health." It was immediately suspended at the behest of Spain's national authorities (such a suspension of a regional law is limited to five months) and in April, the Spanish Attorney General filed a case before the Constitutional Tribunal asking for the prolonged suspension on the grounds of unconstitutionality. The Autonomous Community, for its part, was asking for the early lifting of the suspension.

While it is true that the Tribunal's favorable reply to Spain's central government is a limited one—the local legislation affected a region of less than 3 million inhabitants—it does underscore fundamental issues with vaccine mandates, apart even from the specific problems posed by an experimental injection that only obtained a "conditional" marketing authorization... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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