The new measures expected to curb the Covid-19 epidemic will be the subject of a debate and a vote in the Assembly and the Senate next week, according to several politicians who participated in meetings with Jean on Thursday. Castex.
The range of possible measures ranges from "maintaining the current framework" - an eventuality deemed "unlikely" - to "very tight confinement", according to government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
Between the two are mentioned, according to a government source, the possibility of a curfew coupled with confinement only on weekends or the extension of the February holidays with the ban on inter-regional travel.
A non-binding vote
Emmanuel Macron could announce these measures this weekend or Monday, after which the parliamentarians would have to vote by a vote following a debate under article 50-1 of the Constitution.
But, according to information from the Parisian, this vote will not be binding.
Prime Minister Jean Castex conducted a series of consultations with the presidents of political groups in Parliament, associations of elected officials and social partners, after a press conference by Olivier Véran on Thursday.
The variants, which have spread in the United Kingdom and South Africa and which now represent a tenth of cases in France (2,000 per day), "are likely to lead to a very strong epidemic wave, even stronger than the previous ones given (their) strong contagiousness, ”warned the Minister of Health.