Senators have largely amended the Executive’s bill, when considering the text Monday in committee. The debate in sessions, starting on Tuesday, promises to be difficult.
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The contours of the vaccinal pass evolve. At least it is the clear will expressed by the Senate after the amendments to the bill during its consideration on Commission, Monday, January 10th. The text must endorse the transformation of the vaccineal passes for some places of daily life and leisure activities. “The vaccination pass is neither alpha nor omega is an additional measure that is added and will be at our disposal if it had to be new emerging variants,” defended the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, Monday, during his hearing before the Senate Laws and Social Affairs Committee.
As usual since the beginning of the health crisis, the Senate, on the right majority, applies to limit the scope of the measures of health restrictions on public freedoms. Although the rapporteur of the bill in the Senate, Philippe Bas (Republicans, Manche) refutes the idea of being on the countercurrent of the health emergency. “It is necessary to put the vaccinal pass in its place. It can not be a blackmail instrument to constrain a hard core of non-vaccinated. It does not mean that we should not do it, but it is not Today the instrument that will stop at our 300,000 contaminations per day “, he considers.
Three criteria for” vaccinal pass switch “
In committee, senators adopted, Monday, 32 amendments on the 135 examined. Among them, four provisions will be at the heart of the balance of power with the executive. Mr. Low wants to condition “the extinction of the vaccination pass” to three epidemic criteria. It would only be maintained if “the number of Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 is greater than 10,000 patients at the national level, or in departments where less than 80% of the population is vaccinated or in which active circulation of the virus. is observed, measured by a high incidence rate “. “It’s a pledge of parliamentary democracy,” says Mr. Bas. The government sorts us out of the full powers until July 31st. We must find other ways to make disappear, as and when of the sanitary situation, instruments of freedom restrictions that are asked in the law. “
Other change, the vaccinal pass is now reserved for more than 18 years in the version of the Commission. Minors would remain subject to the sanitary pass regime. This amendment by Mr. Low returns to the one adopted by all groups in the National Assembly where the threshold for the vaccinal pass had been set at 16 years for extra or extracurricular activities. A choice deemed “totally abstract” by Mr. Bas, who wishes to avoid discrimination between the minors whose parents would have made the choice to vaccinate and the others.
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