The Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, rejected en bloc Thursday, in new reading, the bill of "health vigilance" which opens in particular the possibility of resorting to the health pass until July 31, 2022. The Assembly national must vote Friday a final version of the text in accordance with the wishes of the government.
Senators from the Les Républicains group "will, no doubt in the next few hours, file an appeal with the Constitutional Council", Stéphane Le Rudulier (LR) has already announced.
Appeals are also provided by LR and left deputies.
The High Assembly voted Thursday evening the "preliminary question" presented by the rapporteur LR Philippe Bas, a procedural motion which results in the rejection of a text from the outset, without examining its provisions. "The obstinacy with which the government refused any dialogue with the Senate, the refusal to accept it opposed to its amendments (...) left us without hope of being able to further develop the text", justified the protractor. "The Senate is not opposed to the instruments of the fight against the epidemic being extended", but asks "that it be under the control of Parliament", underlined Philippe Bas.
Given the end of inadmissibility opposed by the #gouvernement to the request for democratic control by the #Parliament on the application of the #PassSanitaire and other health constraint measures, I presented and had a motion of rejection adopted. of the law by the #Senate.
- Philippe Bas (@BasPhilippe) November 4, 2021
The Senate had notably proposed that the regime of exit from a state of health emergency, and therefore the health pass, could only apply until February 28, 2022 and not July 31, 2022. The senators had also set at 80 % the vaccination rate of the population over 12 years of the department above which the health pass may not be required.
They had also removed the possibility for school directors to know the virological or vaccination status of students.