Are we witnessing the beginnings of a political crisis over the government’s health strategy, a hundred days before the presidential election? For the second consecutive evening, the examination of the bill aimed at transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass was suspended in the National Assembly. To believe the deputies of the majority as those of the oppositions, who came in numbers in the hemicycle on Tuesday, January 4, a dead end looms on this twelfth text related to the management of the health crisis.
At the origin of the disturbance, statements by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, in the columns of the Parisian, made public Tuesday shortly before 9 p.m., during the recess. “The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so, we will continue to do so, until the end. That’s the strategy ”, did he declare. This sentence was enough to trigger the bronca in the hemicycle.
All the oppositions therefore disrupted discussions on the vaccination pass until the end of the session with reminders of the rules and suspensions of the session. Three in total. Barely fifty amendments might then be considered.
It was Fabien Roussel, the Communist candidate for the presidential election, who was the first to open the concert of condemnations. “We want to know if we are here to amend a bill aimed at pissing off the unvaccinated?” “, he asked. His colleague Sébastien Jumel (Seine-Maritime, PC) wanted to be even more scathing. “This is a sanitary Benalla! “ In turn, the elected officials expressed their indignation, the regulations of the National Assembly waved high, in a deafening uproar.
“A text that invents the forfeiture of citizenship”
“I am in favor of the vaccination pass but I cannot endorse a text which aims to piss off the French”, denounced the boss of the Republicans (LR) party, Christian Jacob. “The words of the President of the Republic dishonor his office and our Assembly”, criticized the president of Debout la France, Nicolas Dupont-Aignant. “We will not continue to discuss a text that you presented as that of the protection of the French (…) and which is a text which invents the forfeiture of citizenship ”, indignant Mathilde Panot, the president of the group La France insoumise (LFI).
LR deputy for Côtes-d’Armor Marc Le Fur, who chaired the meeting, tried to continue examining the amendments. In vain but to the applause of the majority, which sought to cover the boos and the slamming of the desks of elected LFI and LR. “We refuse to let people die when it is preventable”, hammered Olivier Véran, before adding: “If you read in detail the intervention of the President of the Republic (…), you will see that the intention is above all an intention to protect the population. ”
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