"
Not worried
": the Elysee wanted to be confident on Wednesday, on the eve of the highly anticipated opinion of the Constitutional Council on the health law which includes the controversial extension of the
health
"
pass
" and compulsory vaccination for certain professions.
The opinion of the Sages of the rue de Montpensier on the bill passed on July 25 by the National Assembly and the Senate is expected late Thursday afternoon, the executive hoping for its entry into force of the health pass on August 9.
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The Constitutional Council was seized of this text by the government and three groups of more than 60 parliamentarians each - two of senators and one of deputies.
“
We are not worried because we believe that the text is balanced.
It has been enriched by the work of parliamentarians and by its examination in a joint joint committee (Assembly and Senate Editor's note)
"and it has in addition"
obtained a favorable opinion from the Council of State
", one emphasizes at the Elysee Palace. .
"
In addition, we believe that there is a good dynamic, with the vaccination campaign which is ongoing and the mobilization of the government as well as the strong calls of the president to be vaccinated for the young people
", according to this source at the presidency, with reference to Emmanuel Macron's interventions on the Tik Tok and Instagram networks.
"
This increase in vaccination goes hand in hand with the extension of the health pass
" and therefore "
under sums rather confident
".
It is necessary "
that the State fulfills its missions
"
The Constitutional Council may or may not validate the text, but also censure only certain provisions. The health pass is the one that concentrates the most criticism, with in particular hostile demonstrations every Saturday for a month, the last of which brought together more than 200,000 people across the country, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The head of the Socialist deputies, who with their fellow Communists and rebellious France filed one of the appeals, once again expressed on Wednesday, on
LCI
, her objections to the health pass, defending instead a compulsory vaccination.
“
We ask employees, the waiters of restaurants and cafes, to carry out the checks themselves;
it is not their job.
Volunteers who organize summer events are also asked to carry out this check;
it's not their job, it's not their responsibility,
”she said.
It is necessary "
that the State fulfills its missions
", that it "
assumes its sovereign missions and does not delegate them to the others
", continued Valérie Rabault.
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One of the leading figures of the anti-health pass protests, the former number two of RN Florian Philippot, for his part told AFP "
that there are many constitutional principles that are trampled underfoot by this law
”. But “
so far on the Covid crisis, the Constitutional Council has not stood out for its ability to go against government decisions, to say the least. I don't have a huge hope for Thursday,
”he added.
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