The obligation to set up gauges, announced by Jean Castex Monday, does not concern political meetings and the exercise of worship, both protected by the Constitution.
Le Monde with AFP
The national gathering will not put in place of gauges for these meetings, the member and spokesman of the Sébastien Chenu reported on Wednesday 29 December. “The question does not arise,” said m. Chenu on Europe 1 , reminding that the Constitution allowed “until proven otherwise” the holding of “meetings and political meetings without limitation”.
Monday, the Prime Minister announced the recovery of the gauges for large gatherings from January 3rd and for at least three weeks – 2,000 people maximum indoors and 5,000 people maximum outdoors. But this obligation does not concern political meetings and the exercise of worship, both effectively protected by the Constitution.
“This does not preclude a number of provisions” as barrier gestures or social distancing, nevertheless specified the spokesman for the Candidate Rn to the Marine Le Pen president, who officially launches his campaign. January 15 and 16 2022 by a “presidential convention” in Reims (Marne).
The Republic Enforce will apply the gauges
A position also held by France unsuitable. “It would be problematic to introduce a gauge” for the meetings of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has abounded on RMC the member LFI Eric Coquel , announcing that the “insou” candidate, who must hold a meeting on 16 January at the Beaujoire Exhibition Center in Nantes, would applant not the “liberticide measures” of the government. “It can certainly think about density issues,” proposed the “insou” parliamentarian, noting the possible “problems of financing rooms” that such a decision could ask.
The presidential majority had announced on Tuesday that it would apply the gauges for gatherings in its future voter meetings. “We will adapt to different country modalities,” confirmed On France 2 The Republic Aurore Berggé .