"
We will accompany you on the (sanitary) pass, but damn it, we need doses!
", Launched Friday evening to the government the leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau, at the opening of the discussion of the anti-Covid bill in the Senate.
"
The worst solution is confinement, and the pass is probably the least bad,
" he said.
The senators gave the first green light in committee to the bill which provides for the vaccination obligation for caregivers and the controversial extension of the health pass, but conditioned the latter to the reestablishment of a state of health emergency.
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The senator from Vendée also called on the government to vaccinate people most at risk of developing severe forms of Covid.
“
Why not launch a commando operation with general practitioners?
", He suggested, stressing that"
they need doses
".
Vaccination at the center of the debate
"
Will we end with a general vaccination obligation?" I believe it,
”declared Alain Richard (RDPI majority En Marche). For the PS, "
the only path is that of universal vaccination
". "
We do not want a liberticidal pass, we want to achieve collective immunity
," said Monique Lubin.
If the government is working to "
boost
" vaccination, the vaccination obligation for all adults as requested by the PS senators would not "
put a stop here and now to the spread of the epidemic
" , said Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
The ecologists are them for a generalization of the vaccination, but without obligation.
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The president of the group Les Indépendants Claude Malhuret has chosen irony to target the "
antivax
".
“
Our most sacred right to choose disease over immunity had been violated since Pasteur.
Fortunately, like Zorro, Facebook and Twitter have arrived, allowing an enlightened vanguard to unite against vaccine fascism
”.
"A tool for dividing our people"
For the centrist Philippe Bonnecarrère, the “
priority is complete vaccination and the maintenance of barrier gestures
”.
The president of the CRCE group with a communist majority, Éliane Assassi, has castigated in the health past "
a tool of division of our people
".
At the other end of the hemicycle, Stéphane Ravier (RN) called it, under protests, "
ausweis sanitary
".
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For LR rapporteur of the Laws Commission Philippe Bas, "
the current outbreak justifies emergency and exceptional measures to put a stop to it
".
But it proposes a device "
at the same time simpler, clearer, more effective and more respectful of the rights of the person and the freedoms
".
Among the changes made in committee, the minister has already expressed his opposition to the exemption of shopping centers from the health pass.
"
If it blazes up, expect us to be forced to shut them down and we don't want to shut them down,
" he warned.
The Senate will launch Saturday morning in the examination of the articles of the text.
