A new stage for the bill, five days following the eventful adoption by the deputies of the vaccination pass. Will this little break have calmed the spirits? The answer will not be long: the Senate, with a right-wing majority, examines this text this Monday in committee, then Tuesday in the hemicycle.
Due to the delay at the Palais-Bourbon, the government is counting on the entry into force of the law transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass “at the latest in the first days of the week of January 17”, and no longer from the 15th. .
Those over 12 will then need to be able to prove their vaccination status to access leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport. A negative test will no longer suffice, except for access to health establishments and services.
Push once more for vaccination
For Prime Minister Jean Castex, the objective is clear: to push further for vaccination, in an unprecedented epidemic situation while the daily average of new contaminations over seven days is beating record following record.
After three days and nights of agitated debates in the National Assembly, electrified by the controversial remarks of Emmanuel Macron, ready to “piss off the unvaccinated”, the government is however not at the end of its sentences.
The Senate majority has certainly indicated its intention to vote on the text, but certainly not without making changes.
Senate President Gérard Larcher (LR) was very clear on Friday in an interview with the newspaper Le Figaro : “I said, like a large majority of senators, that we would vote for the vaccination pass subject to adjustments, as we had done for the health pass”.
Examination in committee this Monday followingnoon
First stage Monday followingnoon, with the examination in committee, following the hearing of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. Unlike the National Assembly, the examination of texts in committee takes place in the Senate behind closed doors. For the Law Commission, it will once more be Philippe Bas (LR) who will be in charge.
The rapporteur should in particular propose a device providing for the termination of the vaccination pass, once certain conditions have been met. This provision would be in line with the adjustments proposed by the senatorial right since the start of the health crisis: to give the government the necessary means to fight once morest Covid-19, but proportionate to the situation.
