Anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio on Tuesday denied being
against compulsory vaccinations for school admission, saying an
M5S government would bring Italian legislation on the matter
into line with the rest of Europe.
"Vaccines will be compulsory as in the rest of Europe," Di
Maio told CorriereLive.
"I never said I was against vaccines being compulsory, we
want to make the obligation like the rest of Europe".
On Monday Di Maio said the M5S will "change" Health Minister
Beatrice Lorenzin's law on compulsory school vaccinations if it
gains power.
Di Maio reiterated the M5S line that vaccinations for school
admission should be recommended rather than compulsory.
Speaking on RAI Radio Uno, Di Maio said: "we'll approve a law
on the vaccine recommendations, we are in favour of
recommendations".
Asked if vaccinations should be compulsory, he said "we think
obligatory requirements should revert to how it was before the
Lorenzin decree".
That decree made it obligatory for children to have 10
vaccinations before they are allowed to start school.
In the past the M5S has stated views skeptical of the
usefulness rather than alleged harm due to vaccines but has more
recently distanced itself from those statements.
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