The CPF candidate in the presidential election said would like to check the public health pass of his public meetings, which the leader of the “insou” has already dismissed.
Le Monde with AFP
Candidates for the presidential election continue to position themselves in relation to the health restrictions imposed by the Government, of which they are exempted by the Constitution: after the Republic in March (LRM) and the Republicans (LR), the party French Communist (PCF) announced, on Friday, December 31, that the sanitary pass would be requested during the meetings held by the National Secretary, Fabien Roussel.
The Communist candidate said on TF1, Friday morning, wanting to ask the participants to present “proof of being vaccinated or proof of having made a test before”, although a political party can not require it legally. “We will distribute an FFP2 mask to every person who will return to our meetings,” said Roussel. They will also have to respect a safety distance but the gauges restricting access for culture and leisure activities (2,000 people indoors, 5,000 outdoors) will not be applied, as permitting the Constitutional Jurisprudence.
FFP2 masks distributed to the LFI Meetings
France unsuitable (LFI), for its part, will also provide an FFP2 mask, more expensive and more effective in limiting the transmission of SARS-COV-2, to the public of its public meetings. This initiative will apply “from the next meeting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon planned in Nantes on January 16, 2022,” said the campaign director, Manuel Bompard.
For his part, the party candidate the Republicans, Valérie Pécresse, will apply for his meetings the gauges imposed on all the other gatherings, said the deputy Eric Ciotti, deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes and support of his campaign, specifying that the vaccinal pass would also be requested.
“This is a point of equity. It is out of the question that a gauge is imposed on shows and that political meetings do not respect this framework,” he insisted. “Valérie Pécresse will be president of the Republic in a few months. It is therefore today animated by this spirit of responsibility to better protect our fellow citizens,” still insured Mr. Ciotti.
Sanitary pass requested by The PS, but not by reconquest!
The presidential party, LRM, had him eager to announce that he would apply the gauges in his future meetings just after Mr. Castex’s ads. Other parties, like LFI, but also from the far-right movements of the national gathering (RN), of Marine Le Pen, or the reconquest movement!, Eric Zemmour, have indicated that they n ‘had not intended to limit the number of participants to their public meetings. “We do what the Constitution allows us to apply, that is, we make that there are political meetings to inform the French,” said Sébastien Chenu Friday, spokesman of the RN , who will approach the subject during his executive office on Monday.
As for the candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), Anne Hidalgo, she will apply “all the rules that apply to the Republic” for his public meetings, repeated his spokesman, Mathieu Klein. “The wearing of the mask was mandatory and the demanding sanitary pass” for previous meetings, recalled the mayor of Nancy. “Attention to what the democratic debate is not confiscated by this peripheral debate,” he nevertheless exhorted, wishing to debate “substantive topics to solve the health crisis”.