The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, has already received the vaccine against COVID-19, as she revealed on her Instagram account, along with a photograph and a few words of thanks to the health staff who attended her.
According to The Diplomat, González Laya went to one of the centres authorised to administer the vaccinations on Tuesday, after being summoned in the order in which she was due to be vaccinated.
The minister turned 52 on 22 May, which puts her in the group of people aged between 50 and 59 who began to be vaccinated in the middle of last month with one of the vaccines authorised for that age group, which are Jansen, Pfizer and Moderna.
González Laya’s vaccination comes after she was forced to meet with representatives of diplomatic unions and associations to try to respond to their repeated complaints about the delay in vaccinating staff serving abroad.
The minister met with the workers’ representatives on Wednesday 19 May and, in addition to assuring them that “every public employee who comes to Spain will be vaccinated”, promised to send them a vaccination plan by the end of the week.
However, a week later, given the lack of response, the trade union centres represented in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -CSIF, CCOO, UGT and SISEX- sent González Laya a letter in which they described as “intolerable” the fact that the aforementioned plan had not been sent to them and stated: “The failure to fulfil the commitment made to all the trade union organisations, and the lack of operability of your management team, is unethical, unworthy of the actions of a European Administration”.
