Health pass: failure of the conciliation between the Senate and the Assembly

After the Senate refused to extend the health pass until July 31, 2022 last week, deputies and senators failed on Tuesday to agree on the “health vigilance” bill, several parliamentary sources told the Parisian .

The text will therefore have to pass again this Tuesday evening before the Laws Committee of the National Assembly before a public session Wednesday and Thursday before the Senate, before a final vote on Friday of the Assembly, which will have the last word.

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The failure of the mixed parity committee (CMP) meeting at midday was widely expected, given the profound differences between the texts voted on at first reading by the Assembly - where the government has a majority - and the Senate. , dominated by the right-wing opposition. The main sticking point remains the date until which the government can impose the health pass. The Senate had reduced to February 28 the deadline that the majority wishes to extend to July 31, to "span" the electoral period. "If the National Assembly votes again its same text, and we expect it, the government will be able to keep important powers for a period too long in our eyes", castigates Senator Philippe Bas, rapporteur of the text.

The Republicans and the left have already planned to appeal to the Constitutional Council.

The Senate also pleads for a "territorialization" of the health pass from November 15.

Sesame is no longer requested in the departments where the vaccination rate reaches 80% of the eligible population.

Prime Minister Jean Castex, who spoke Tuesday morning in front of the deputies of the majority (LREM, Agir, MoDem) had himself anticipated this failure.

“We will not be able to reach an agreement with the Senate.

I trust you so that you will be mobilized tomorrow (Wednesday) ”, he said, reported a participant to AFP.

Referring to the conflict with the Senate on the deadline, the head of government "recalled that the heaviest measures (confinement, traffic restrictions), always call for the validation of Parliament after four weeks", in the event of re-engagement the state of health emergency regime.