Despite the fury of the oppositions, the health pass will be authorized for another nine months, until July 31, 2022. This Friday, Parliament authorized the extension of its appeal, despite the anger of the oppositions who accuse the power of evacuate any questioning of its health policy in this sensitive period of the electoral campaign.
The National Assembly voted in the morning a final version of the bill of "health vigilance" in accordance with the wishes of the government. The text will thus be validated on behalf of Parliament, returning to the objections of the Senate dominated by the right, which had radically changed it, and which ended up rejecting it out of hand Thursday evening, via a "preliminary question". Rather than going until the summer, the Senate and the oppositions at the Palais Bourbon pleaded for the date of February 28, which would force the executive to return before the elections in front of the chambers.
On behalf of the government, the Secretary of State for the Family, Adrien Taquet, stressed, at the opening of the debates in the morning, that "the provisions of the text are fully justified by the health situation and its evolution in the coming months" .
The rapporteur Jean-Pierre Pont (LREM), called “not to let our guard down” and stressed that the WHO feared “500,000 deaths in Europe within four months”.
"Government health authoritarianism"
The oppositions intended for their part to deliver a last stand against this project denounced on the right as on the left as a "blank check" which "spans" the presidential and legislative elections.
A motion to reject the text presented by France Insoumise, supported by opposition from all sides, was however retoked - 71 votes in favor, 119 against - at the start of the session.
In a stormy atmosphere, the president of the LFI group, Mathilde Panot, denounced "the government's health authoritarianism".
Communist Hubert Wulfranc accused the government of wanting to "install the country in a sanitary sequence which will coincide with an electoral sequence".
The main dispute concerns the possibility of resorting to “braking” measures, the first of which is the sanitary pass, until July 31.
"We are going to step over the Parliament, the presidential and legislative elections and that does not pose any question to the government", indignant the LR Philippe Gosselin.
The government for its part emphasizes that a parliamentary debate on the subject would take place around February 15.
Without convincing the oppositions, who demand a proper examination of government policy with a decision-making vote.
The vaccination status of the pupils known
The majority also stresses that a possible return to a state of health emergency (confinement, curfew ...), lifted last June, would be subject to the approval of parliamentarians.
The Republicans and the left have already provided for appeals to the Constitutional Council.
Another contentious provision, the bill allows school directors and secondary school principals to learn about the vaccination status of students.
According to the government, a measure intended to facilitate in particular screening and vaccination campaigns in schools, but denounced by the opposition as a "breach in medical confidentiality".
The bill also extends the state of emergency in Guyana and Martinique to December 31.