François Bayrou, president of the MoDem and High Commissioner for Planning, said he was in favor of the idea of a health passport on Sunday, December 27, which would condition access to certain places for vaccination against Covid-19.
Faced with the outcry over a bill on health emergencies establishing the possibility of making certain trips conditional on vaccination, the government postponed for "
several months
" the submission of the text to parliament.
The text provides that "
the Prime Minister may, if necessary (...) make the movement of people, their access to means of transport or to certain places, as well as the exercise of certain activities, subject to the presentation of the results of a screening test establishing that the person is not affected or contaminated, following a preventive treatment, including the administration of a vaccine, or a curative treatment
”.
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", obligation to be vaccinated: freedom in danger
Asked about LCI on the subject, François Bayrou estimated that "
one can quite imagine that, that in a way the fact of being subjected to the vaccination opens doors which until then were closed
".
It is "
the natural sense of things
", he said, defending "
all the efforts that can be made
" to "
find life as normal as possible
", from the moment that "
has been verified that, one, the vaccine is effective, two, that it is safe
”.
"
To go in this direction today, we only have the hope of the vaccine,
" he stressed, on the first day of the vaccination campaign in France and in Europe.
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As for the many French people skeptical of the vaccine, Bayrou estimated that "
once we have verified
" that it is "
without risk
" - which "
will be done in a few days or a few weeks
" - "
then the demand for vaccines will increase a lot and we will reach massive figures which will make it possible to overcome the epidemic
”.
If the government has denied any attempt to create a "
health state
", the National Rally and the right have seen in recent days in the bill the risk of a possible restriction on freedom of movement.