Forgotten the revolt of the oppositions, which had voted for a version of the health bill almost emptied of its substance.
The deputies had decided to vote against article 2 of the text, which gave the possibility of reintroducing the health pass for “extra-hexagonal” trips.
A great opportunity offered to senators to regain control of the file and try to impose their view.
After the vote in the Senate and the passage in joint committee, the text therefore returned in a version very different from the initial ambitions of the executive.
A text voted in the Assembly with the support of the Republican deputies.
No more talking about sanitary passes at the borders.
If the text is promulgated as it stands, which should be the case, the State may ask travelers over the age of 12 from abroad to present a negative test, if the health situation requires this obligation.
Proof of vaccination or recent contamination cannot be required.
The reintegration of non-vaccinated caregivers put on hold
MEPs overwhelmingly voted for the extension of the data collection necessary for the SI-DEP epidemic monitoring tools (until June 30, 2023) and Contact Covid (to January 31, 2023).
The bill declares the end of the state of health emergency on July 31, 2022.
The reintegration of nursing staff suspended because they have not been vaccinated, which has given rise to deep differences between the different groups in the National Assembly, is as if put on hold.
In effect ;
the text voted on Monday afternoon postpones the publication of a decree taken after advice from the High Authority for Health (HAS) the possibility for these officials to return to work.
However, this same HAS spoke out no later than Friday against this reinstatement, thus greatly facilitating the task of the government which did not see this hypothesis in a good light.
The bill must still be voted on in the Senate in the coming days to be definitively adopted by the Parliamentarians.
It is only on this condition that it can be promulgated.