As the seventh wave of the epidemic thrives in the territory, restrictions soar. Parliament definitively adopted on Tuesday, by a final vote of the Senate, a health bill which ratifies the end of the exceptional measures against Covid-19, as of August 1, but provides for the possibility of a compulsory test. at the borders. The text, largely rewritten by the right-wing senatorial majority, was voted by 209 votes to 30.
This text bears the mark of the new parliamentary configuration which obliges the government to seek agreements beyond the presidential majority, in particular with Les Républicains, the first group in the Senate.
Compromise
The left denounced on Monday an agreement reached in advance between the presidential majority and LR. In the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon, the vote was won by 184 votes against 149. The PS and LR groups voted for with the majority, the RN, LFI, communist and LIOT (independent) groups deciding against and the ecologists choosing abstention.
“Faced with an unprecedented political situation (…) we have no other choice to move our country forward than to reach compromises while respecting everyone’s convictions”, declared the Minister of Health François Braun.
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