Bill, then accelerated parliamentary examination: the train of new anti-Covid measures, including the controversial extension of the health pass, arrives on Monday, July 19 in the Council of Ministers before a course in the form of a race against time in the face of progress of the Delta variant.
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A week after the announcements of Emmanuel Macron, on which the Head of State plays a good part of his credit for the presidential election of 2022, the project must therefore be adopted this Monday in the Council of Ministers.
Strong measures in the text supported by a majority of the population but which raise criticism, even calls for demonstrations: compulsory vaccination for caregivers and the extension of the health pass (proving that one is fully vaccinated, in possession of a recent negative or immune test) to access trains or bars and restaurants.
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The objective is to relaunch vaccination massively in the face of the meteoric advance of the Delta variant, and to prevent a fourth epidemic wave from forcing a return to containment or curfew measures when the economy leaves again.
The number of vaccinations reached the record of 879,597 injections on Friday, welcomed the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
Tuesday at the National Assembly, Thursday at the Senate
Not a day wasted: the bill will come Tuesday at the end of the day in committee at the National Assembly, before the hemicycle the next day.
The turn of the Senate, dominated by the right, will come Thursday, with a view to final adoption by the weekend, at the end of the extraordinary session in July.
Deputies and senators could quite quickly agree on this text, which is the subject on its principles of a fairly broad approval, except on the side of La France Insoumise and the National Rassemblement.
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However, in the details of the measures, elected representatives from the left, from the right and also from the majority intend to seek the best balance between protection of the population and restriction of freedoms.
The LR and centrist groups of the Senate have already announced that they would seize the Constitutional Council "
to have all possible guarantees
", as soon as the bill is adopted.