Member of Parliament offers Legion of Honor to deceased caregivers of Covid-19

Emilie Bonnivard, deputy (LR) of Savoy, announced Thursday to have tabled a bill to allocate the legion of honor posthumously to all the dead personnel of the Covid-19 by treating and taking care of the others. “Like all French people, at my little level, I am on my balcony at 8 pm to applaud them. It would be nice for this popular recognition to translate into the nation's highest recognition for those who give their lives, ” said the MP, who, like other deputies, was sick.

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Deposited on the desk of the Assembly on Wednesday, which will not examine it until the beginning of April, this PPL is "open to the co-signature of all deputies regardless of their political sensitivity," said Bonnivard. The parliamentarian does not hide that this text is also "a PPL of appeal .... to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron: if the executive and the president decide to do so before the Parliament, which is not currently sitting so much the better! "

In this unprecedented health crisis, five doctors have already died of Covid-19.