The bill, presented to the Council of Ministers on Monday by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, and providing to give him the right to condition access to certain places to a negative test or to "
the administration of a vaccine
" is a
"bad controversy",
reacted Wednesday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
"
No, vaccination will not be compulsory, the president is committed to it
", he recalled on TF1.
“
The coronavirus vaccine will not be mandatory to take public transport or go to a restaurant.
This is a bad controversy born of the head of the FN,
”he lamented.
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The Minister of Health recalled that this text was "
not intended to consider compulsory vaccination
", and that it would not be presented to Parliament "for
several months
".
According to him, this bill must be used for the post-coronavirus crisis.
"
The question of changing the law in order to be able to fight against health crises is an important question, asked by a cross-party commission to serve us later
", he stressed.
It will not be presented
"before the end of the crisis"
, he insisted.
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This text provides for granting to the Prime Minister, during the state of health emergency, the possibility of conditioning travel, access to means of transport
"or to certain places"
and
"the exercise of certain activities"
to the presentation of a
"screening test establishing that the person is not affected or not contaminated, following a preventive treatment, including the administration of a vaccine, or a curative treatment"
.
A decree would then specify the scope of the obligation and its modalities, in particular in terms of
“categories of persons concerned”
.
The bill provoked a real outcry on the part of the opposition, worrying about a freedom-killing law, which would override Parliament.
However, according to Olivier Véran, this text was requested by the parliamentarians themselves.