The Republic has already announced its intention to apply gauges during its electoral meetings, while the national rally, France unsuitable and the team of Eric Zemmour are opposed to it.
Le Monde with AFP
The Republican candidate (LR) in the presidential election follows the République on the Republic (LRM). Valérie Pécresse announced, Thursday, December 30 to Nantes, that his meetings would be held respecting gauges fixed for gatherings. “If there are gauges for the shows indoors, there will be gauges in my meetings,” said M me Pécresse, after a visit to the police station of Nantes.
“There will also be [sanitary] passes, as in theaters. There will be no derogation: we will be exemplary,” said the President of the Ile-de-France Regional Council, which was accompanied by the member LR Eric Ciotti.
“I want to do everything to avoid the confinement of the vaccinations: it seems unfair to me. We must do everything to avoid a new confinement and I call on vaccination,” also added the candidate.
The idea divides the candidates
By announcing limits for gatherings – 2,000 people maximum indoors and 5,000 outdoors – the Prime Minister Jean Castex, had recalled that the French Constitution did not allow to fix gauges or to impose sanitary pass, political meetings and places of worship.
The idea of applying these gauges to electoral meetings divides candidates for the presidential election. The national rally, France unsuitable and the team of Eric Zemmour are opposed to it, while the Presidential Party LRM announced that it would apply these gauges in its future public gatherings.
Wednesday, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, said “favorable”, but “with uncertainty about the legal aspect”, to an amendment of the member Lr Guillaume Larrivé giving the possibility to the organizers of great gatherings policies to require a vaccination pass and fix a gauge. At the end of lively exchanges, the amendment was adopted in the evening, but without its part on the gauges, with consultation being in progress between the Minister of the Interior and the political formations.
Responding to the attacks of the presidential majority as to his passivity in the face of the health crisis, Valérie Pécresse said “totally proactive”. “The majority may have short memory. It’s me who brought the masks, who took all the measures to secure public transport and I fight for not closing them on the night of December 31,” -What she assured.