This first text of the new legislature is confirming the end of the legal regime of the state of health emergency and the health and vaccination pass from the end of July. But majority and oppositions have frequently invectivated.
Le Monde with AFP
It was predictable: the debates around the examination of the health security bill against the revival of the COVID-19 took place in a stormy climate, Monday, July 11, in the National Assembly.
The examination of this text was offset in the evening due to the debate on the Motion of Censorship of the left towards the government, rejected during the afternoon after discussions, also electric.
For his baptism of fire in the hemicycle, the new Minister of Health François Braun immediately defended “very targeted but necessary” measures. This first text of the legislature, whose examination will continue on Tuesday, legally confirms the end of the main restrictions at the end of July.
It is “the extinction of the legal regime of the state of health emergency” and the “health and vaccination pass in the daily life of the French”, underlined the minister, by claiming the “civical” of everyone On the port of the mask in “crowded places and public transport”.
The health pass at borders much discussed
This bill makes it possible to continue to collect health data on screening tests and vaccination, and authorizes a possible health pass at the borders. The government “rallies to the calendar” voted by the deputies in committee for these two measures, allowed until the end of January 2023, rather than the end of March as planned in the original version, said Francois Braun.
Several elected officials have denounced the fact that the possible health is applied to the borders applies to the journeys between metropolitan France and overseas territories. The debate will not fail to be tightened on this point when examining the second article of the text. In the afternoon, between 150 and 200 anti health demonstrators protested the bill near the assembly around Florian Philippot or the sovereignist deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (not registered).
François Braun was hooked by the elected national rally (RN) when he repeated that the reintegration of non -vaccinated caregivers was “not on the agenda” given the epidemic situation. Same fate for the rapporteur of La République en Marche (LRM) Caroline Abadie, heckled by oppositions when she estimated that “it has been two years that the government has managed this crisis very very well … You can cry louder. The French know it , they tell us every day “.
“Buy cotton swabs because you will have to do tests,” she ended up letting go, annoyed. The RN Sébastien Chenu, for his first session presidency, tried to bring calm.
“The extremes come together”
At the gallery, Raquel Garrido (La France Insoumise, LFI) came to defend a motion of preliminary rejection, pushed by little by 192 votes against 174. “Do you get used to finding limits to your abuses of power” -Is she viturated, supported by the other left groups. But the RN also voted the motion. “What are you waiting for to reintegrate these” non -vacinated “caregivers thrown like malpropers,” said Thomas Méné (RN) to government. “The extremes come together,” we heard in the spans of the presidential majority.
“What image you give to the French who look at us and who hope that we can work together,” the Erwan Balanant Modem told oppositions.
The President of the Law Commission, Sacha Houlié (LRM), brought the iron against the “populists” who “communicated hand in hand against the vaccines” in committee, targeting the RN and LFI. “No, vaccines do not prevent contamination but, a thousand times yes, vaccines prevent contracting serious forms, (…) Vaccines save lives!”, He insisted. Data-format = “inread” aria-hidden = “true”>
The latter and Eric Coquerel, president LFI of the finance committee, took part in the inadmissibility of the amendments. According to Republican deputy Philippe Gosselin, “the state of annoyance” in the hemicycle is explained by “a little precipitation” around this bill. But however, this text “at least” does not deserve “infamy”, he said.