Each councilor and position of trust will voluntarily sign a responsible declaration informing whether they have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or not and, where appropriate, the priority group to which they belong according to the Vaccination Strategy in Spain The Murcia City Council, through the Department of Urban Agenda and Open Government, led by Mercedes Bernabé, will be the first administration in Spain to publish the vaccination data of councilors and trusted personnel on the Transparency Portal. "The objective is to clear up any doubts about the performance of the members of the Municipal Corporation of the Murcia City Council in relation to the vaccination campaign against Covid-19," clarifies the mayor, responsible for the municipal transparency area. After the request of the municipal groups VOX, PSOE and Ciudadanos in which they required information on vaccination of the members of the Corporation, the council has decided not only to collect it, but to make it public, provided that they voluntarily give their authorization, in an exercise openness and transparency so that Murcians can directly access all information. The mayor explains that “since the data from the registry cannot be obtained due to data protection, we have sent a request to the political groups to voluntarily make a responsible statement.
Once the answer is received, it will be reported in a specific section through the municipal portal to the whole of society ”. In the responsible declaration, each councilor and position of trust must confirm whether they have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or not and, where appropriate, the priority group to which they belong according to the Vaccination Strategy in Spain.
Finally, they must authorize the publication of these data on the Transparency Portal. The new section of the Transparency Portal will also include all the activity of the City Council's vaccination service, which will show the groups that have been vaccinated, as well as the number of doses administered according to the indications of the General Directorate of Public Health. The councilor responsible for the Transparency area has declared to Murcia .com that "the City Council has been informing from the first day of the development of the vaccination process, both through the media and social networks." function { ;(, , {});}
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