The French deputies examined this Monday, January 3, the introduction of the vaccine pass from January 15. The new device must replace the sanitary pass. For hours, attacks by opposition MPs multiplied against the Minister of Health. Surprise at the end of the evening: the examination of the bill was suspended.
A government disconnected from the French, ready to do anything to better control them. It was in substance the angle of attack of the deputy and presidential candidate for the formation National Gathering, Marine Le Pen, this Monday against the government.
For the French, it’s hell every day, what you make them experience, and it’s been going on for two years. You consider that you are going to be able to do what you want with the daily life of the French, whom you know particularly suffer from
Another charge, from the Republicans this time. The deputy Aurélien Pradié, spokesperson for Valérie Pécresse, insisted on the loss of confidence of the French towards the executive.
What you lack most essential today is confidence. You must hear us, because when in a few months, we will come out of this crisis, we will have, not only in terms of public health, but in terms of democracy, a hell of a hangover.
Unfazed by the deputies, Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, simply conceded deprivation of liberty.
Whenever we put in place tools that provided strong incentives, it is true that they could lead to deprivation of liberty; it is true, each time, we noticed that there were more and more French people being vaccinated. And who have thus, and they do not know it, saved their own lives
Surprise suspension
In an attempt to calm the heated debates, Olivier Véran ended by asking the deputies to set an example in the hemicycle. Obviously insufficient, because the examination of this bill aimed at transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass was the subject of a surprise suspension by the French National Assembly at the end of the evening, after a majority of deputies have refused by show of hands the continuation of the debates after midnight, according to a count of the chairman of the session.
The conference of the presidents of parliamentary groups of the Palais Bourbon will have to decide to include the continuation of the examination of the text on the agenda of the lower house, but this dramatic turn will slow down the timetable for the final adoption of the text by the Parliament. .
This is an extremely rare situation, which caused the noisy joy of the opposition deputies, in particular on the LR benches. For its part, members of the majority called on President Annie Genevard, like the president of LREM deputies, Chistophe Castaner, and Olivier Véran.
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