Why did MEPs suspend consideration of the text?
A real twist in the National Assembly. The deputies examined, since Monday followingnoon, the bill which provides in particular to transform the health pass into a vaccination pass. But, faced with the influx of amendments from the opposition, the debates fell behind Monday evening.
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, then requested the agreement of the Hemicycle to continue the debates following the normal closing time of the Assembly, at midnight. “We have the night in front of us”, he had previously quipped. But the deputies of the majority, not numerous enough, were put in the minority, thus causing the suspension of the meeting. This simple formality, which was to take the deputies in a marathon examination until the early hours of the morning, turned into a new quack which causes disorder in the middle of the presidential campaign.
It will return, Tuesday morning from 10 a.m., to the conference of the presidents of parliamentary groups of the Palais-Bourbon to include the continuation of the examination of the text on the agenda of the National Assembly, but this rebound will derail the timetable for the final adoption of the text by Parliament. Mr. Véran was, in fact, to be heard Tuesday evening in the Senate before an examination of the text Wednesday by the senators.
