Decidedly, it is now written that nothing will go as planned with the examination of the bill supposed to introduce the vaccine pass. Rarely has the atmosphere been so electric at the Palais Bourbon. This is the direct consequence of the interview granted by the President of the Republic to our readers, published Tuesday evening on our website.
The elected representatives of the opposition did not support the words of Emmanuel Macron, addressed to the French who have to date still not received a single dose of vaccine. “The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off,” Emmanuel Macron said in our columns.
What once again upset the debates in the Assembly, disturbed last night by several sitting suspensions. Discussions, already very tense on the vaccine pass, were very quickly overshadowed by the presidential words.
“A president cannot keep the remarks which were made”, launched Christian Jacob, president of the Republicans. “I cannot support a text which aims to piss off the French”. For his part, the communist Fabien Roussel, candidate for the presidential election, wondered about “the real intentions of the government”. The bill on the health pass “is it a text to piss off more? or less piss off? The French, he asked.
The deputies claim in vain the arrival of Jean Castex
And the tablets of the National Assembly slammed when Olivier Véran took the microphone. The Minister of Health, questioned by the Communists, then hammered under boos the interest of vaccination. It was finally cut off by the session chairman, who deemed the situation untenable and suspended the session for the second time in a row.
The elected representatives of the opposition even ended up asking for explanations by demanding the arrival of Prime Minister Jean Castex. “We have been waiting for 1h30 … It’s incredible, an experience that I had not had since my first mandate in 2007,” said LR deputy Philippe Gosselin. The guarantor of the unity of the Nation should not make such remarks, it is not worthy of the presidential office. It is institutionalized provocation ”.
A little before 2 am, the debates were finally able to resume in the Assembly but anger was still strong in the ranks of the opposition. The deputy Damien Abad immediately denounced the words “premeditated, of a childish cynicism” of the President of the Republic … Before calling once again for the coming of the Prime Minister and asking for a new suspension. Request legitimately granted by the chairman of the session. Finally, the deputy Marc Le Fur, who chaired the debates, announced at 2 am the adjournment of the meeting. It must resume this Wednesday at 3 p.m. In an atmosphere which promises to be already very tense.