The few days of break since the eventful adoption by the deputies of the vaccination pass will they have appeased the spirits?
Response at the beginning of the week to the Senate, with a right-wing majority, which will examine the bill on Monday January 10 in committee, then on Tuesday in the hemicycle.
Despite the delay in the initial schedule, due to the delay at the Palais Bourbon, the government is still hoping for the entry into force of the law transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass on January 15.
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Those over 12 will then need to be able to prove their vaccination status to access leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport.
A negative test will no longer suffice, except for access to health establishments and services.
For Prime Minister Jean Castex, the objective is clear: to push further for vaccination, in an unprecedented epidemic situation while the daily average of new contaminations over seven days is beating record after record.
A large majority of senators ready to vote for the bill
After three days and nights of agitated debates in the National Assembly, electrified by the controversial remarks of Emmanuel Macron, ready to
"piss off the unvaccinated"
, the government is however not at the end of its sentences.
The Senate majority has certainly indicated its intention to vote on the text, but certainly not without making changes.
The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR) was very clear on Friday in an interview with
Le Figaro
: "
I said, like a large majority of senators, that we would vote for the vaccination pass subject to adjustments, as we had. made for the sanitary pass
”.
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First stage Monday afternoon, with the examination in committee, after the hearing of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
Unlike the Assembly, the examination of texts in committee takes place in the Senate behind closed doors.
For the Law Commission, it will again be Philippe Bas (LR) who will be in charge.
The rapporteur should in particular propose a device providing for an end to the vaccination pass, once certain conditions have been met.
This provision would be in line with the adjustments proposed by the senatorial right since the start of the health crisis: to give the government the necessary means to fight against Covid-19, but proportionate to the situation.
"Trap"
Another point that will be debated, the possibility for cafetiers or restaurateurs to carry out identity checks in the event of "
serious reasons
" to believe that there is fraud in the vaccination pass.
The deputies have already postponed from 12 to 16 years the need for a vaccination pass for school trips and peri and extracurricular activities.
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The discussion in the Luxembourg Palace hemicycle will begin on Tuesday afternoon and may continue on Wednesday.
This will be the test of truth for the first group of the Senate.
Will LR senators follow their leader Bruno Retailleau, who loudly proclaimed his intention to vote for the vaccine pass?
Or will they divide like LR MPs?
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The group intends to thwart the "
trap
" set by the Head of State with his comments on the unvaccinated, fully assumed before the Senate by the Prime Minister. And not to disown the LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse "
in favor of this vaccination pass since the protection of the French is linked to the respect of the protection of freedoms
". The postponement of the text will have made it possible to get out of the “
hysterized climate
” which prevailed at the end of the week, as desired by Bruno Retailleau. Still, on July 25, 26 senators from the group (out of 147) voted against the bill establishing the health pass, while 12 abstained.
Among the irreducible LR anti-pass, Alain Houpert will do "
everything so that the vaccine pass does not pass
".
Laurence Muller-Bronn will vote against a “
discriminatory law
” which “
is not based on any scientific rationality
”.
For their part, the LR chairmen of the Laws and Social Affairs committees, François-Noël Buffet and Catherine Deroche, believe that the timetable, conducive to preparatory discussions, will allow the final adoption of the text by Parliament "
before January 15
".
By counting on an agreement at the end of the week between deputies and senators on a common text in a joint committee.
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