Majority of parties opposed mandatory COVID-19 vaccination

Of the 14 parties participating in the elections to the State Duma, 12 said they would vote against mandatory vaccination.

Almost all representatives of the parties participating in the election race are ready to vote against mandatory vaccination against coronavirus, if the opportunity presents itself. They announced this within the framework of the RBC project “14 questions to 14 parties”. During this project, RBC asked party leaders 14 questions about their programs, election goals, future bills, attitudes towards protests, laws on foreign agents, and the burial of Vladimir Lenin.

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RBC asked party leaders and leaders if they would support a bill on mandatory vaccination if it was submitted to the State Duma. Only two parties out of 14, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the RPSU, admitted that they could support mandatory vaccination. However, they are willing to do so only under certain conditions. According to Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will vote for this measure only if all regions are adequately provided with vaccines and if the authorities do not put pressure on people for whom vaccination is contraindicated. Representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation earlier held actions in Moscow against mandatory vaccination, during which several people were detained.

The head of the RPSS, Maxim Shevchenko, noted that vaccination can become mandatory only if the state guarantees people the opportunity to undergo diagnostics at the expense of compulsory medical insurance in order to understand how vaccination will affect their health. In addition, the vaccine must be tested on volunteers, he added. If these two conditions are not met, the party will vote against it, Shevchenko says.

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