Romanian Orthodox Church spokesman Vasile Benescu took to Facebook to criticize the protest organized by the AUR in front of the Ministry of Health against “mandatory vaccination”, saying that people are effectively ignoring or tolerating behavior that affects society. .

A BOR representative publicly reacted to several hundred people brought in by AUR protesting in front of the Ministry of Health on Thursday, claiming that the National Vaccination Strategy, which is subject to public debate, provides for “compulsory vaccination”.

Things turned sour during the protest, with demonstrators clashing with law enforcement while the “Dac flag” was able to get past the gendarmes, scale the ministry’s wall and reach the first-floor balcony, a behavior blamed on Vasile Benescu.

And the party headed by George Simion was accused of “tricolor populism”.

• “A society in which citizens, not necessarily tortured, come into conflict with the authorities trying to protect their lives,
• in which populism dressed in the tricolor fights in the streets with ghosts and phantoms emerging from the fog of sleepless conspiracy,
• in which the other citizens, who are not so easily fooled, are locked in a Greco-Roman struggle with the Great Reset,
• a society that ignores or tolerates the very thing that abounds in it is the one that has a huge chance of (re)discovering Christianity to the sober, not gloomy, soft, not sick, urban, not empty, realistic, not passeist, orthodox, non-orthodox, demophilic, not populist,” wrote Vasile Benescu.

During the protest, the journalist was hit by a man, the aggressor was taken out of the crowd by gendarmes and taken to the police.

The Bucharest Police Department reported that the organizers called on the protestors to block access to the public institution.

AUR claims that it only joined a “civil protest organized by representatives of civil society against mandatory vaccination” and accuses it of an “attempt to denigrate”.

This, even though the AUR called on people to “protest against mandatory vaccination” and the demonstration, which the AUR broadcast on Facebook, was also attended by George Simion.

The Romanian Gendarmerie imposed six fines for violations found at a protest organized by the AUR on Thursday near the Ministry of Health, and a criminal case was filed for beatings.

The National Vaccination Strategy, recently released at a public hearing by the Ministry of Health and which has already caused controversy in the part of society that speaks of compulsory vaccination, does not provide for compulsory immunization, but in fact gives more information and encouraging actions about vaccinations , provision of reserve stocks for basic vaccines, as well as – for the first time in Romania – compensation for some vaccines for adults.

Rafila on the AUR protest: “Political hypocrisy has been brought to a paroxysm”

Alexandru Rafila stated that the Ministry of Health does not in any way promote the policy of mandatory vaccination and “they are making a workhorse out of a false problem.”

“Those who are in front of the Ministry of Health do not want us to give birth to healthy children,” said Rafila, referring to the protesters mobilized by the AUR. “The threshold was crossed, which is the threshold of faith. We are talking about irresponsibility,” added the Minister of Health.

The National Vaccination Strategy “is nothing more than setting the principles and access to the vaccination program. We are interested in protecting our children. I don’t understand why they insist on being mandatory,” added the Minister of Health.

“I saw some slogans at the protest, in particular that a vaccinated person is a drunkard. I’m telling you that most of the people here at the protest – I saw a lot of elderly people there – were vaccinated as children and I didn’t think they were intoxicated. A political party that completely irresponsibly attacks the foundations of public health in this country and develops a completely false theme is based on alcohol intoxication,” says the Minister of Health.

Alexandru Rafila called the AUR protest in front of the Ministry of Health “a political fraud taken to the extreme” that must stop.

The decrease in vaccination coverage in Romania is an alarming phenomenon in recent years, and our country, in the case of many vaccines, ranks last in Europe in terms of vaccination coverage. This must be changed, Alexandru Rafila emphasized.