The bill of “sanitary vigilance” will have served as a forum for criticism against the government’s health policy and illustrated, once again, often irreconcilable currents that cross the hemicycle.
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Ten voices separate the winners from the losers. Members have adopted, in the night of Wednesday, on Thursday, October 21, the bill of “health vigilance”, to 135 votes for, 125 against. This tight ballot illustrates, once again, the often irreconcilable currents that have been crossing the National Assembly since the beginning of the health crisis on the political choices of the executive, in the management of the epidemic of COVID-19.
The text of six articles must allow, inter alia, to extend the exit regime of health emergency until July 31, 2022, with the possibility for the executive to use different levers in respect of restrictions Freedoms, like the health care in case of deterioration of the epidemic situation. Wednesday, the members spent nine o’clock debate, and often to tear, on these extensions which would give a period of eight months to the executive during which he would not have to submit a new bill before Parliament . A first since the beginning of the pandemic. “Democracy lives, and she lives fully here in our parliament,” defended the member (Val-de-Marne) of the Republic (LRM) Guillaume Gouffier-Cha, under the Ows Oppositions.
The majority explains mostly wanting to guard against any political instrumentalization by its opponents in the election campaign for the presidential election and the legislative of 2022. “This text also shows again the failure of government policy”, a Purchase the President of the National Gathering, Marine Le Pen, presents during the debates. Faced with mobilization problems in its ranks, the majority has brought the parliamentary incident on Article 2, which contains the provisions related to the health care and the four specified threshold criteria that condition its appeal (the vaccination rate , the positivity rate of screening tests, the incidence rate and the saturation rate of resuscitation beds). It was accurately adopted at 74 votes to 73.
Eleventh bill
As in the previous debate, at the end of July, a notice of the rights defender, Claire Hedon, came to substantiate the arguments of the oppositions. The latter emphasized, Wednesday, October 20, in a statement, “the risk that exceptional measures are in the long term” with this eleventh bill on the health crisis. She also denounces the executive’s strategy, which has opted since October 15 for the purpose of reimbursement of antigenic tests for non-vaccinated persons, this measure being perceived by M me hedon as a carrier of a “discriminatory risk” that can be similar to “a disguised immunization obligation”.
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