Vaccination: the curious request of the National Electoral Chamber

The National Electoral Chamber (CNE) has asked the Ministry of Health of the Nation to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, as “strategic personnel”, the people who act in the organization and execution of the electoral process for the end of this year.

The tribunal sent an official letter with the request signed by its president, Santiago Corcuera, to the Minister of Health of the Nation, Gins Gonzlez Garca.

There he asked “to be incorporated as” strategic staff “in the all officials and agents who provide services at the various stages that make up the national electoral process. “

The CNE highlighted “the incontestable need to include in this forecast, all those who carry out the activities of the national electoral law, in order to allow the good conduct of the next legislative elections ”, one reported in a press release.

The Court had issued the extraordinary convention CNE 33/2020, in which “according to a program of evaluation and monitoring for the adoption of specific measures in order to hold elections and preserve both the health of voters and that of those in charge of electoral tasks. “

The calendar foresees that the PASO and the general elections will be held in August and October, although there is a project promoted by the Justicialist governors for suspend the primaries due to the pandemic.