On the health pass, the government wants to go quickly. The bill establishing new restrictive measures to fight against the coronavirus was presented on Monday in the Council of Ministers. The text will be examined in the hemicycle of the National Assembly on Wednesday, then in the Senate on Thursday, with a view to final adoption at the end of the week. Not a minute to lose for the executive, while opponents of compulsory vaccination marched across France last Saturday. In the political arena, criticism is heard to varying degrees. 20 minutes reviews the oppositions.
Against its field of action or “excessive” fines
Several members of the opposition said they were in favor of the health pass, such as Xavier Bertrand, who generally welcomed the announcements of Emmanuel Macron last week. But the presidential candidate denounced in Le Figaro “The lack of preparation in the implementation, both in hospitals and in restaurants, culture or shops”, regretting a lack of “clear framework, especially with regard to controls of health passes”. The boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure, for his part, asked to review his “constraint perimeter” on FranceInfo, believing that its use “for acts of daily life, such as accessing a shopping center, [posait] problem ”.
In the center right, the president of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde for his part considered “very excessive” the sentence provided, up to 45,000 euros fine and one year of imprisonment, for establishments that do not perform not the control of the famous sesame. An argument taken up this Monday by … the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, who also judged the amount of the “excessive” fine. A sign that the text could be brought to evolve during the parliamentary debates this week.
Against infringement of public freedoms
France rebellious has drawn up a stronger criticism of the device, believing that it undermines public freedoms. “It is a profound change in social relations in our country. It is a form of training in permanent control which is unbearable ”, denounced Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The rebellious deputies, like the senatorial right,
indicated on Monday that they wanted to seize the Constitutional Council on the bill. The wise will be informed if the request brings together 60 deputies or 60 senators.
“Governing the French does not mean subjecting them to permanent blackmail, infantilization and threat,” tweeted Marine Le Pen. The president of the RN has also relayed a platform signed by Les Républicains MEP François-Xavier Bellamy, who sees the health pass as “a profound and unprecedented questioning of our model of society”. “When you have to present a health document and your identity card ten times a day, to buy a wand or play sports, you have not regained your freedom”, writes the former professor of philosophy, while however, food businesses would not be affected by the system.
Calls for a boycott against the health “coup”
Several politicians are more radically opposed to the health pass, and participated in Saturday’s demonstration in Paris. This is particularly the case of Florian Philippot, a long-time defender of the government’s health restrictions. “The health pass is useless, it is a horrible society of discrimination and apartheids”, annoyed the candidate of the movement Les Patriotes for the presidential election,
this Monday on RMC, by calling for a boycott of establishments controlling the vaccination certificate.
Same tone for Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, candidate Debout France for 2022, who accused Emmanuel Macron of “health coup”. MP Martine Wonner was controversial after her speech on Saturday at the mobilization. The ex-macronist called on the demonstrators to “lay down the seat of parliamentarians” and “invade their office to say that you do not agree”. Comments denounced by the majority as well as by members of his own group Libertés et Territoires, who demanded his exclusion.