"You're going to shut up!" : electric session at the Assembly on the reintegration of non-vaccinated caregivers

The tone is (again) raised in the National Assembly this Thursday evening and the elected representative of Guadeloupe Olivier Serva (Freedoms, independents, Overseas and territories) caused an uproar in the hemicycle.

While the deputies were debating the bill providing for the reintegration of caregivers not vaccinated against Covid-19, Olivier Serva, who left the majority during the last legislative elections - precisely because he was indignant at the obligation to vaccinate -, took the floor for a point of order.

As he tried to speak and was interrupted by other elected officials, he lost his temper and blurted out, “You're going to shut up!

“, pointing the finger at one of his colleagues.

"You're going to close it," says @olivier_serva in the hemicycle as he denounced "some obstructive regulations" from the majority, causing a new suspension of the session.

#DirectAN #Covid pic.twitter.com/DPgPR55j5O

— LCP (@LCP) November 24, 2022

His exit caused a stir at the Palais-Bourbon.

And of the president of the session, Naïma Moutchou (MP Horizons and relatives of Val-d'Oise), to react tit for tat: “No, it is not possible.

Mr. Serva, this is an invective.

Dear colleagues, we cannot come to invectives in this way”.

“The session is suspended for five minutes,” she then announced.

The majority accused of slowing down the debates with “bogus” amendments

After a suspension of the session, the vice-president wanted to call for calm and ask for an end to the "provocations".

"It's getting late, and tempers are running high, but I don't want to hear anymore what I heard a few minutes ago," she warned.

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After several tense interventions evoking "obstructions" to the debate, it was Olivier Véran who took the floor.

"I am surprised at the level of tension that I have never seen in twelve years of Parliament," said the government spokesman and former Minister of Solidarity and Health.

Under boos and a more than electric atmosphere, the debates were again suspended for ten minutes before resuming in an atmosphere of "circus", according to the vice-president.

Until midnight, the debates could not be held as the speeches were disturbed.

Elected officials decided to leave the room before the session closed at 11:57 p.m.

🔴 REINTEGRATION OF NON-VACCINED

Deplorable attitude of the @gouvernementFR which organizes the obstruction of our text.

Surprised to have been caught in the act of being a minority, last-minute amendments, without head or tail, are tabled by the hundreds.#LoisFi2022 #DirectAN pic.twitter.com/zDtfj3Qy7G

— Caroline FIAT (@CarolineFiat54) November 24, 2022

The bill debated this evening provides that “staff thus reinstated will be able to practice subject to the daily presentation of a valid negative Covid-19 screening test”.

The government is opposed to it and the LFI deputies accuse the majority of having tabled a large number of "phony" amendments to slow down the examination of the text and lengthen the session at the end of the night.