Follow the events of the day live:
4:42 p.m. “Mr. Prime Minister, would you repeat those words? “. We leave for a round of speaking from the group presidents. The leader of the deputies LR Damien Abad directly addresses the Prime Minister. “You are the Prime Minister of the fractures, you will assume all the consequences in front of the French. “
4:38 p.m. The meeting resumes. Christophe Castaner calls once more to find serenity. “We have seen attempts to obstruct, deplores the leader of the LREM deputies. The bill has only one aim, to protect the French, to protect caregivers. He thanks Jean Castex, who arrived on site. The Prime Minister will try to ease tensions.
4:31 p.m. The meeting is suspended. The request for suspension, once is not customary, was requested by Olivier Véran. In anticipation of the arrival of Jean Castex?
4:28 p.m. Jean Castex should not delay. The Prime Minister was announced around 4:15 p.m. It will therefore be a little late, to the chagrin of the elected members of the opposition.
4:16 p.m. MEPs reject the abolition of the health pass in interregional public transport. Olivier Véran reminded that people who can justify a compelling reason will be able to exempt themselves from it. A new series of amendments aims to replace it with the sanitary pass in these same interregional transportations.
4:13 p.m. The recap of Gabriel Attal’s press conference. In the followingmath of the shocking and assumed remarks of the president in front of the readers of Le Parisien, the government spokesperson defended this position as a majority.
4:11 p.m. Marine Le Pen speaks. “Does the admission of the President of the Republic in the columns of the Parisian not nullify the opinions of the Council of State on the vaccination pass in transport?” She wonders. The President of the Republic has just admitted in the clearest and most abject manner that it is a question of rotting the lives ”of millions of French people by forcing them to be vaccinated.
4:06 p.m. Martine Wonner relaunches criticism once morest Macron. “I would like to say how shocked I was. We were unable to make a point of order as a non-registrant. So many citizens were deeply hurt, shocked by the words of the President of the Republic. “Officially once morest vaccination, she ensures that medicine has effective preventive treatments once morest the disease.
4:01 p.m. Resumption of debates. MEPs are examining amendments aimed at modifying the scope of the vaccination pass. The elected representatives of the opposition are trying to reduce it, by excluding it, for example, from interregional public transport or collective catering.
3:57 p.m. And a further suspension of the meeting for two minutes. The rebels, supported by the Communists, manage for the moment to prevent the good holding of the debates. They have only one objective: to wait for the arrival of the Prime Minister.
3:55 p.m. François Ruffin tries his luck once more. “Do we have a law aimed at pissing off some of the French?” », He asks before being cut off by the chairperson. “This is not a point of order! »She annoys.
3:47 p.m. The game of suspensions starts once more! It is the turn of the rebels, through the voice of deputy Eric Coquerel, to use this procedural right. He called for a vote on the suspension of the meeting. The session chairperson consults her rules to establish whether the Insoumis are indeed entitled to it. The public ballot is finally announced … The majority of the deputies vote once morest the suspension, the session can resume!
3:44 p.m. Jean Castex spoke once more in the Senate. “Vaccination is and remains the first weapon. With this legal text, we will continue to remain in this pragmatic, coherent and balanced line “, resumes Jean Castex, still in the Senate, insisting on the civic and individual responsibility of each one,” by resorting to vaccination “. find his first speech in the video below.
3:40 p.m. Olivier Véran calls for the examination of the text to be resumed. ” The amendments that we propose to discuss concern the logical continuation of the amendment voted before 8 p.m. yesterday because it was voted unanimously minus two votes, he pleads. This will not pose a substantive subject, which is why I suggest that we can move forward ”. But the suspension requested by the Communists being of right, the meeting is suspended for the third time.
3:38 p.m. Resumption of the session. Communist deputy Sébastien Jumel uses a point of order to let it be known that, according to him, the debates cannot resume until the Prime Minister has spoken to the national representation.
3.30 p.m. The speaking tour continues. The presidents of the opposition groups continue to express their strong anger at the words of Emmanuel Macron in our columns. Patrick Mignola, the president of the Modem group, calls for appeasement. He believes that the image of Parliament is degraded by recent debates. He calls for the resumption of debates on a point which eventually reached consensus in the Assembly, the vaccination pass reduced to 16 years for minors. The sitting is suspended for the second time, for five minutes, before resumption.
3:27 p.m. Scolding by Jean-Christophe Lagarde. “Your president opens it a little too much,” he denounces. He is supposed to be the president of all French people, he has given up on being. There lies the real irresponsible and he sits at the Elysée »
3:26 p.m. Valérie Rabault demands an apology from Emmanuel Macron. When you are politically responsible, you are elected and you represent those who elected you but also those who did not vote for you, ”defends the head of the PS deputies.
3:23 p.m. A Senate review on Friday? In an email sent this morning to members of the Senate Law Commission and of which Le Parisien was aware, Gérard Bapt, its president LR, indicated that the review meeting of the health bill scheduled for this morning, Wednesday, was canceled and postponed perhaps Thursday followingnoon. According to some elected officials of the upper house, the discussion in the Senate might take place on Friday and the CMP meet next Monday
3:20 p.m. We return to the Assembly. Christophe Castaner, like Marc Fesneau, instantly confirms that Jean Castex will go to the Assembly following the questioning session to the government. The leader of the LREM deputies pleads for appeasement and the resumption of debates pending the arrival of the Prime Minister.
3:15 p.m. Jean Castex defends Emmanuel Macron. “Being a citizen also means having duties and reminding them of it. That’s all we do! He pleads in the Senate with a hint of annoyance. The Prime Minister castigates a “tiny minority which fractures the nation”. Before continuing: “The announcement of the vaccination pass has started once more the primary vaccinations, he defends. We will soon be at 92%, a world record! At some point we have to call a spade a spade, empower our fellow citizens and together give us the means to fight this epidemic. “
3:11 p.m. The senators also return to the controversy. During the session of Questions to the government in the upper house, the leader of the senators LR strongly criticized the words of Emmanuel Macron. “This is too much outrage”, he denounces, to the cheers of the senators of his group.
3:03 p.m. The session resumes … But it was immediately suspended for five minutes at the request of Marc Fesneau, Minister in charge of relations with Parliament.
2:58 p.m. Will Jean Castex come to the Assembly? This is one of the questions which arise a few minutes before resuming consideration of the text. The Prime Minister is currently in the Senate but is quite likely to visit the Assembly in stride.
2:44 p.m. The Senate is also ready to debate. According to Public / Senate, the Senators would be ready to open the debates on Thursday followingnoon following the possible adoption of the law by the National Assembly. However, the Senate would like to hear the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, before launching the debates at the Luxembourg Palace.
2:35 p.m. The resumption of debates should not be long in coming. “They will resume this followingnoon at 3 pm and I hope that reason will prevail,” said Minister of Relations in Parliament Marc Fesneau Wednesday morning on France Info. He assured that the entry into force of the vaccination pass on January 15 “remains an objective”. He also considered that the president’s remarks produced “an electric shock for some, and it is saving”.
2:20 p.m. “Piss off the unvaccinated”: when Macron is inspired by a little phrase from … Pompidou. The formula used by Emmanuel Macron can be read as a reference to a formula attributed to Georges Pompidou who was lecturing, in 1966, a project manager named Jacques Chirac. Read our decryption here.
2:10 p.m. “Who’s fucking who’s life today?” ” The government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, returned this Wednesday noon, at the end of the Health Defense Council, on the controversial remarks of Emmanuel Macron. “Who’s fucking who’s life today?” Who is preventing life from resuming? », He added. “Each hour of parliamentary time lost is an hour saved for the virus”, also launched Gabriel Attal, regarding the two suspensions of sessions since Monday.
14 hours. The story of a shock wave. Before the debates resume, you can dive back into this story of a shock wave following the words of Emmanuel Macron. Since Tuesday evening, they have been shaking the political class.
13h50. Hello and welcome to this live. We will follow together the debates on the vaccine pass which must resume this Wednesday in the National Assembly around 3 p.m., following 48 stormy hours for the deputies and the executive.
