As vehemently as rarely since his arrival in Matignon, Prime Minister Jean Castex strongly defended this Thursday morning the new restrictions against the third wave of Covid-19, in front of a stormy National Assembly where the opposition largely boycotted the final vote.
"I heard, from many speakers, that the braking measures would be too late, insufficient", annoyed the Jean Castex, rejecting the criticisms of the deputies according to which the executive would have been too slow to take this news restrictions.
“I am listening to you, Tuesday after Tuesday.
I am consulting you.
What was the music for these interventions?
“Shops and ski resorts, don't close them!
Universities and public cultural establishments, reopen them! ”
», He got carried away.
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No alcohol on the public highway, help for modest families deprived of school canteens, maintenance of competitive examinations in higher education and travel allowed to accompany children to their grandparents: the deputies approved the measures specified by 348 votes against 9. But the vote was marked by a massive boycott of the oppositions of the right (LR) as of the left (LFI, PS, PCF) to denounce a "trampling of the parliament" called to vote on measures already recorded by the executive.