It is done, while awaiting the vote of the Senate in the afternoon.
The National Assembly approved this Thursday by 348 votes against 9 the new restrictions announced by Emmanuel Macron the night before in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic.
However, almost all of the oppositions boycotted the ballot, denouncing "a masquerade".
After a speech by Prime Minister Jean Castex and a debate, the LREM-MoDem-Agir majority voted for, as well as a handful of deputies (including ex-minister Delphine Batho).
Voted against, the RN deputies as well as Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (DLF) and the former LREM deputies Joachim Son-Forget and Guillaume Chiche.
You are responsible in the face of history for one of the worst health disasters in our country.
#DirectAN # Confinement3 https://t.co/UjbD7o4FTo
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) April 1, 2021
At the Palais Bourbon, none of the opposition groups took part in this vote which did not engage the responsibility of the government, the leader LR Damien Abad refusing to "dub the Jupiterian word", that of LFI Jean- Luc Mélenchon saying his “exasperation” at “seeing the Assembly excluded from the health strategy”.
“Here we are there to vote the law, not to denounce the word of Jupiter.
And if you want to engage the responsibility of your Government, well ask us the question of confidence and use article 49 of the Constitution!
»#DirectAN pic.twitter.com/qjDdF1aq9c
- Damien Abad (@damienabad) April 1, 2021
A vote to "act as if we were a democracy"
The boss of the PS deputies Valérie Rabault also did not want to "endorse the way" in which the executive is handling the crisis.
And the leader of the communist group, André Chassaigne, saw in this debate in application of article 50-1 of the Constitution “a rattle pulled from the toy box to pretend we were a democracy”.
The president of RN Marine Le Pen, who does not have a group in the Assembly, has targeted her criticism on the merits of the measures taken by Emmanuel Macron with "few convictions, and a lot of indecision", according to her.
The member for Pas-de-Calais outlined the health policy that she would favor, from territorialized confinement to a "moratorium on the reduction of hospital capacity".
"The country needs more to be led than ingenuously reassured", slipped the presidential candidate of 2022. The left left the hemicycle during its intervention.
📹 Lost in the twists and turns of Brussels, crippled by administrative blockages that they have not been able to remove, our leaders give the feeling, exasperatingly, that they are always trying to gain time.
My intervention following Emmanuel's speech #Macron ⤵️ #DirectAN # COVID19 pic.twitter.com/eDrc0LRMV4
- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) April 1, 2021
The Senate, with a right-wing majority, is due to vote in its turn in the afternoon and the same scenario of a massive boycott is looming, according to parliamentary sources.