The health pass will again be on the menu of the Defense Council this Wednesday, the day after bitter discussions in the National Assembly.
In a stormy climate, the deputies laboriously began Tuesday evening the examination of a new bill devoted to the Covid-19 crisis.
The stake is the possibility of using the health pass until July 31, a deadline contested by all the oppositions.
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At the start of the debates on this text of "
health vigilance
", Olivier Véran called "
not to disarm ourselves even though the virus would show signs of weakness, (to) remain vigilant, actors, active so as not to let the slightest catch in the virus
”.
The Minister of Health stressed that the law will only allow "
if the situation requires it
" to maintain the health pass until July 31 or to "
trigger a state of emergency
", while metropolitan France is currently living under. a transitional regime for exiting the health emergency.
But "
the prospect of lightening the pass
" remains and will be "
examined in mid-November
", assured Olivier Véran.
The government also insisted on the importance of the third dose of the vaccine, "
fundamental
" for the most fragile, over 65 years and sick people: "
In the long term, 22 million of our fellow citizens will be called upon to receive this reminder
".
The deputies will vote on the extension of the health pass for eight months, by "
spanning
" the presidential and legislative elections.
Only about fifty amendments were examined on Tuesday at first reading, out of some 350 amendments on the program until Wednesday evening.
"Trivialization of the state of emergency" and "denial of democracy"
Elected officials from both right and left criticize a "
blank check
", in a "
state of exception
" which is becoming "
the norm
", with a country which for the last six years has lived more than three years in different states of emergency, between the attacks and the health crisis.
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LR Philippe Gosselin unsuccessfully defended a motion of rejection against this “
trivialization of the state of emergency
”.
“
This text proposes to step over the national representation because we are suspending our work on February 28.
Until proven otherwise, this is not the end of our mandate,
”he pointed out.
Communist Karine Lebon denounced a “
denial of democracy
” and the rebellious Mathilde Panot of decisions taken at the option of “
orders and counter-orders from Jupiter
”.
"
Is it prudent to maintain (an exit regime from) the state of health emergency beyond the presidential election?"
We do not know who will be elected, imagine that it is an extremist,
"warned UDI Michel Zumkeller, center-right.
"
If we remove any possibility of resorting to the health pass (...), the only alternative to an epidemic resurgence would be the closure of establishments or the return to confinement
", retorts the LREM reporter Jean-Pierre Pont.
The Constitutional Council should be seized by the oppositions if the bill does not evolve over the parliamentary shuttle, scheduled until early November.
Local health pass and third dose
Unsurprisingly, the LREM group plans to return to the national logic of the pass, while taking into account several criteria that "
walkers
" want to specify to justify the use of the pass: vaccination rate, positivity of screening tests, d 'incidence or saturation of intensive care beds - with levels to be defined.
Ultimately, the validity of the pass for those over 65 and the most vulnerable could also be subject to the injection of a third dose of vaccine.
"
It's a possibility,
" according to government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
The executive is also preparing to defend an amendment allowing school directors to access the vaccination status of students.
The goal is to "
strengthen the
vaccination
campaigns
", argues Olivier Véran.
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