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The national prosecutor Jorge Abbott informed the regional prosecutors and the head of the Unit for Crimes against Organized Crime, Mauricio Fernández, the instruction to criminally prosecute all those people who, even being infected with covid-19, go to vote in this Sunday’s plebiscite.
Through an email, the authority of the National Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that “in our opinion, restrictions on the right to vote are legitimate in the context of a health emergency such as the one experienced and to that extent, a covid patient does not he will be able to successfully use, in his defense, a cause of justification in relation to his conduct in violation of a sanitary isolation order, under the pretext of being legitimately exercising a right “.
The email from the head of the public ministry maintains that “the exercise of the right to vote by a single infected person constitutes an ideal behavior to put the health and even the lives of many people at risk, making it possible to generate a chain of infections.”
The national head of the Prosecutor’s Office also argues that there is a clash between fundamental rights such as the right to vote and the right to health of the people, the latter prevailing.
The effects of voting in the plebiscite with covid-19
“The collision of fundamental rights that is verified in these cases, on the one hand, the right to vote (human right of a political nature, emanating from citizenship, but without reference to an individual vital interest) and the right to health (whether it is understood as public or individual health, undoubtedly has a vital interest as a reference, “says Abbott’s statement to his subordinates.
Jorge Abbot’s message that was shared this Friday to all the country’s distributions ends by stating that “in short: Covid patients who attend to exercise the right to vote, violating the isolation order that weighs on them as a health measure, carry a communicable disease that is capable of endangering the right to individual health of an undetermined number of people (given the incidence rate of this disease), people who could be exposed to close or close contact with the offender, in enclosures where there will be an agglomeration that favors, without a doubt, contagion “.
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