Faced with an epidemic of Covid-19 where every second two French people test positive in France, the deputies examine this Monday the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass whose adoption is no doubt, despite a tense climate and the hostility from several political groups. At the Palais-Bourbon, from 3:00 p.m., the Covid-19 bill “strengthening the tools for managing the health crisis” is the subject of more than 650 amendments for this first reading until the end of the night. It will then go to committee in the Senate on Wednesday, then in session on Thursday, with a view to final adoption by Parliament by the end of the week, for entry into force from January 15.
This text “responds to the epidemic recovery in an efficient, graduated manner.
He made the choice of science "and" of responsibility ", insists the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, while France has just repeatedly crossed the bar of 200,000 new daily cases.
The government wants to put even more pressure on the nearly five million French people aged 12 and over unvaccinated who, unable to justify a vaccination status, will no longer have access to leisure activities, restaurants and bars. , fairs or interregional public transport.
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In the opposition, the PS group says it votes "on principle" for the vaccine pass, like the majority of LR deputies. The rebels, who denounce a "brutalizing measure" and an "illusion of protection", as well as the Communists, who do not want "to impose on the French every four months to get another dose", will vote against. The same for the RN deputies: Sébastien Chenu would prefer "to target people at risk and not to force all French people". These votes will be insufficient to derail the text but tensions around the future law remain high. Several elected officials from all political stripes have spoken of threats.
The deputy president of the LREM group Aurore Bergé, who will file a complaint for a tweet where she is compared to women shorn for collaboration after the Second World War, denounced in the JDD the intimidation which aims "so that parliamentarians no longer feel free to vote in their soul and conscience ”.