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Jean-Louis Thiériot: "Once again, Parliament is devitalized"

2020-12-22T19:20:02.652Z


INTERVIEW - On the subject of the health emergency, the LR deputy for Seine-et-Marne believes that "the power is in the hands of the executive alone and the technostructure".


LE FIGARO.

- Monday, Jean Castex presented a bill establishing a sustainable management system for health emergencies.

Does this worry you?

Jean-Louis THIÉRIOT.

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Of course.

By authorizing the Prime Minister to decide by decree to

“subordinate the movements of people, their access to means of transport or to certain places (…) to the presentation of a screening test (…), to the monitoring of preventive treatment , including administration of a vaccine, or curative treatment '

, it is the whole edifice of public freedoms that is upset.

It is not the substance that is necessarily shocking.

In certain circumstances, at the heart of the crisis, it is sometimes necessary to restrict freedoms.

But we have known since Montesquieu that such heavy decisions can only be taken if there are checks and balances.

In matters of public freedoms, General de Gaulle had explicitly wanted, with article 34 of the Constitution, that they were the exclusive responsibility of

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Source: lefigaro

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