Olivier Véran defended Monday, January 3 before the National Assembly the bill creating the vaccine pass, fought by part of the opposition that the Minister of Health accused of being won by "
selfishness
" or "
withdrawal into oneself
”.
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Faced with the "
tidal wave
" of the Omicron variant of the Covid-19, "
vertiginous
", it is a question of transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass to access leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or transport interregional public, he recalled, at the start of the debates at first reading. "
We have a vaccine
" and by Tuesday, the French will be "
53 million to have received a first injection
", underlined the minister, for whom this shows that "
French society is not divided
".
For him, it is a text of "
cold blood and responsibility
".
"
There are those distant
" from the vaccine and "
the indifferent
": "
we will manage to convince them
", according to him.
"
And then there are those for whom no rational register can be mobilized
", "
their fight is tiny
".
"
Behind a speech on so-called freedom too often hide a selfishness or a withdrawal into oneself
", criticized Olivier Véran, while RN on the one hand, LFI and the Communists on the other oppose the vaccination pass.