Senators perspectively opposed the exit of the state of emergency on July 31, 2022, as provided for in the executive, and propose on February 28. The government’s text must return to the National Assembly.
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After twenty months of health crisis, the Senate now knows its partition by heart and intends to play it until the end. The majority of the right and the center had adopted on the night of October 28 to 29 its reworked version of the Bill of Sanitary Vigilance. By 158 votes to 106, the elected representatives of the Luxembourg Palace showed their deep disagreement with the executive and the presidential majority in the National Assembly. “We propose that the sanitary pass be put on an extinction”, supported the Senator the Republicans (LR) of the Channel and Text Rapporteur, Philippe Bas.
At the beginning of the week, the text of the Government adopted by the National Assembly had been largely retouched in the laws of the Senate, on the initiative of Mr. Bas. Three important modifications – which act as red lines for the presidential majority – had been selected: the possibility of using the safety and the exit of the state of emergency fixed until 28 February instead of 31 July 2022, L territorialized application of the pass according to a vaccination rate at 75% of the general population by department, and the abolition of the amendment to authorize the principals to access the vaccinal status of their students to facilitate the application of the Protocol health of national education.
“We enter into a power-up period of our health system,” opposed the Minister Delegate to autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon, presents the Bench instead of the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran. The Government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, confirmed, Wednesday, October 27 at the exit of the Council of Ministers, “a light but sensitive recovery” of the epidemic, with 5,400 cases recorded per day on average, however, remaining optimistic. , with nearly 51 million French-vaccinated French. The situation remains nevertheless critical in the ultramarine territories, where the vaccination rate is well below the metropolitan average. In Guyana, the state of emergency is extended until 31 December, and it should also be for Martinique in case of adoption of this eleventh bill presented to Parliament since the beginning of the health crisis.
Two irreconcilable philosophies
A new opportunity for the Senate to maintain its influence struggle against the executive “on behalf of public liberties” and the prerogatives of Parliament. “From now on, the rule must be freedom, and constraint the exception,” defended the leader of Senators LR, Bruno Retail. The parliamentary shuttle once again exposes two philosophies which, according to the epidemic waves, are irreconcilable. “What we are discussing here is the preservation of the rule of law, we want legal arguments, not sanitary arguments,” scolded the Communist Senator of the Hauts-de-Seine Pierre Ouzoulias.
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