“All members of the Green-Left Bloc want to get vaccinated against coronavirus and support the vaccination of as many people as possible. What’s more, we think the vaccination is the only way for us to get back to at least a semblance of normality and halt the pandemic that has turned all our lives upside down,” the group said in a statement on their Facebook page on Friday.
They said that, like ordinary citizens, they had contacted their GPs and signed up for vaccination as soon as there was enough vaccine for the general public.
A third of lawmakers, or 51, have signed up for vaccination, scheduled for Monday at 1pm.
Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković has said it is important that MPs get vaccinated in order to send a message as politicians that vaccination is necessary and important and that it can help in the fight against COVID-19. He dismissed claims that it was lawmakers’ privilege.
