After three days of tumultuous debates, fueled by controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, ready to ” piss off “Unvaccinated, the National Assembly adopted, Thursday, January 6 in the early morning, at first reading, the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass.
The bill must still be examined by the Senate, dominated by the right, at the beginning of next week, but if it is adopted, all French people over 12 years old will have to be able to justify a vaccination status to access the activities. facilities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport. A negative test will no longer suffice, except for access to health establishments and services.
The vaccination pass postponed to 16 years for school trips
The government wanted it to come into effect on January 15. It should take a few more days.
Announced in December by the executive in the face of the rampant Covid-19 epidemic, the text was approved by 214 votes in favor, those of the majority and part of the LR (right) and the PS (left). They were 93 deputies to vote against, including the left from the left, the extreme right, and three dissidents from the majority center-right party. Twenty-seven abstained.
Among their retouching amendments, the deputies postponed from 12 to 16 years the need for a vaccination pass for school trips and peri and extracurricular activities.
It costs me obviously because I like to party, I like to see people. But I think I have a kind of resignation …
Covid-19: living without being vaccinated
Identity checks in restaurants?
Until the end of the night, the parliamentarians exchanged on the merits, the oppositions targeting in particular the identity checks that can operate cafetiers or restaurateurs in the event of ” serious reasons »To think that there is fraud in the vaccination pass. And holders of false documents will risk five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros. LR deputies (right) announced that they would seize the Constitutional Council on this point.
Prime Minister Jean Castex himself came on Wednesday afternoon ask parliamentarians to speed up, after the blockage caused by the words of Emmanuel Macron. “ The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do so, until the end. This is the strategy “, Proclaimed the head of state in an interview with the newspaper The Parisian Tuesday. ” When my freedom threatens that of others, I become irresponsible. An irresponsible person is no longer a citizen “, he added.
During the debates, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced that 335,000 new Covid-19 contaminations should be recorded in France on Wednesday, a record. He also welcomed the fact that 66,000 new French people received a first dose of vaccine on Wednesday, a figure that had not been reached since October 1, implying that this clear increase was linked to the debates on the vaccine pass and the controversial remarks of Emmanuel Macron.
(With AFP)