A “drama” in the hemicycle. The heart disease of an evacuated official came to close another stormy day Thursday in the National Assembly, with a government defeated on the obligation to vaccinate for caregivers and on the status of EDF. The night session was interrupted around 11 p.m., after the heart attack of this editor of the report service. She was resuscitated in the hemicycle itself by two deputies then her condition was “stabilized” by the firefighters of the Assembly then the Samu, before her evacuation to a hospital, indicated the president of the institution, Yaël Braun- Pivet.
“At such times, the National Assembly is strong in the members who compose it”, elected and personal, who form “a great community”, she underlined in a brief speech shortly before midnight from the perch . This serious incident strongly shook the Assembly, at the end of a day that had already been trying. The deputies had first adopted at first reading a bill to repeal, and not only suspend, the anti-Covid vaccination obligation for caregivers, a first failure for the government.
“Conspiracy has prevailed over science”, lamented the Minister of Health François Braun, opposing a text which, according to him, will “weaken our capacity to respond” to Covid-19 and which sends a “message unfortunate”. The government has already announced the future reintegration of non-vaccinated caregivers, after an opinion from the High Authority for Health (HAS). It could start as early as May 15. But the government proposal is insufficient for many opposition deputies, especially from overseas. Like Jean-Victor Castor (Guyana), author of the text studied as part of a day reserved for his predominantly communist group.
Obstruction
In the evening, Communists and Socialists transformed the essay against the government, with a text by Philippe Brun (PS), adopted at second reading, which provides in particular that the capital of EDF be 100% owned by the State. To oppose it, the government argues that it is already carrying out a nationalization operation. Supported by the communist Sébastien Jumel, the socialist deputy also wants to engrave the activities of EDF in law, to prevent any project of “dismantling”, suspecting the executive of not having given up on a controversial restructuring project. He firmly denies it.
The bill also plans to extend regulated electricity tariffs to certain companies and, added the deputies, to local authorities. The text will continue its shuttle with the Senate. On this first anniversary of the left-wing Nupes alliance, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire spoke out against “a day of 10 billion euros” in the Assembly, which risks “sending France into the decor “.