In National Assembly, heated debates for start of examination of COVID-19 bill

This first text of the 16th legislature acts in particular the end of the state of health emergency, scheduled for July 31, while maintaining certain measures, while France is affected by the seventh wave.

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The stormy debates of the censorship motion that held in the afternoon on Monday, July 11, extended late in the evening during the examination of the COVVI-19 bill. Although succinct, this text which acts the end of the state of health emergency, scheduled for July 31, while maintaining certain measures, was the subject of a new confrontation between the majority and the deputies of the new union popular, ecological and social (Nuts).

Unlike the censorship motion where the clip found itself lonely, the left elected officials were joined this time in their opposition to government measures by the deputies of the National Rally (RN), during a session Sometimes electric, chaired by the Vice-President RN of the Assembly, Sébastien Chenu.

By this health bill, the first examined in this 16 e legislature, the Government intends to extend until January 31, 2023 two technical measures, one on the extension of systems of Information and monitoring on the epidemic, the other on the possibility of restoring displacement controls “to their destination or from” hexagonal territory, Corsica or overseas communities. While the government intended to extend these measures until March 31, 2023, the Minister of Health, François Braun, announced on Monday evening in the hemicycle which he “rallied on the calendar” of January 31 voted by the deputies in committee . A “compromise” which illustrates “the new method” advocated by the executive and “inaugurates new ways of legislating”, praised the rapporteur of the text, the Renaissance deputy Caroline Abadie.

“Legislative journey to Forced walking “

warning against an epidemic which “is still there”, Mr. Braun reiterated his opposition to the reintegration of agents of health establishments not vaccinated against the COVVI -19 – around 12,000 people (caregivers but also Technical and administrative staff) – which, according to him, is “not on the agenda” in view of the epidemic situation, provoking hoots in the ranks of the RN.

But before the examination of the hundred amendments deposited, postponed to Tuesday, the session was marked Monday evening by the debate on the motion of preliminary rejection of the text, deposited by the deputy La France insoumise de la Seine- Saint-Denis Raquel Garrido. At the gallery, the elected official notably denounced the accelerated procedure used by the government for examining this text. A “legislative journey with forced march all the more surprising” since the text does not include emergency measures, she deplored.

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