"Hold on, Mr. Mélenchon, masks and frost," calls out an apparitor when the leader of the Insubmissives presents himself Tuesday at the entrance to the National Assembly. To participate in a historic vote on the deconfinement plan, each member is given a kraft paper bag with the necessary protective equipment. Unusual atmosphere at the Palais Bourbon. And solemn as 75 parliamentarians are positioned, at a good distance from each other, in the hemicycle. Contrary to the usual jousts, the deputies listen in an almost religious silence to the Prime Minister to outline his proposals.
VIDEO. Deconfinement: what to remember from the speech of Edouard Philippe
As soon as the speech was finished, the political game resumed its rights in the Four Columns room. "This deconfinement plan is too shy," regrets an opposition figure ... before acknowledging, off: "In place of Edouard Philippe, I would have done the same ..."
"This is the will of Edouard Philippe"
Separated from the rare journalists authorized to enter by a double barrier of red cords, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout France) castigates the reopening of the schools, regretting that "we cannot meet more than ten while we are going bring millions of students into classrooms. "
Insubordinate Danièle Obono points to her "feeling of frustration" at not being able to amend the plan "decided in advance". As if echoing, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the gallery, castigates the "moment of shameful injunctions". “How can we ask parents to assess the risk themselves? It is odious! "Calls out the deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône for whom" the second wave of the epidemic is inevitable ".
“This deconfinement is based on a lie. We should have tested all the suspicious cases, we would have saved a lot of time, ”criticizes Sébastien Chenu. The deputy (RN) opposes the reopening of schools, "a lot of risk for little school time". "This is the will of Edouard Philippe", he concludes dryly.
StopCovid federates a lot of discontent against him
More moderate, the socialist Olivier Faure says "for the deconfinement, but not at the cost of health", by asking "why bring the little ones (Editor's note: children) before the big ones". The president of the LR group Damien Abad welcomes the change of the executive in favor of a specific vote on digital tracing but denounces a “low-cost deconfinement with a particularly difficult operational implementation”. "We understood today that the deconfinement, it was not necessarily May 11, but rather the eleven but with a lot of constraints," he quips.
“We are on a ridge line. Right now, I'm choosing between bad decisions, ”the Prime Minister will defend himself at the start of the evening. Although only the LREM and MoDem groups vote for the deconfinement plan, it is approved by a large majority of 368 votes to 100.
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Within LREM, only six deputies ultimately abstained (and one elected voted against). "Withdrawing the StopCovid application from the vote made it possible to crystallize dissatisfaction less," welcomes a LREM MP. Now, we will have to be vigilant about the prerogatives of the Contact Case Brigades mentioned by Edouard Philippe. They also raise internal questions… ”
