While many demonstrations took place this weekend against health measures, the Council of Ministers must adopt this Monday the bill including the new measures against the coronavirus, including the extension of the health pass. It will then be scrutinized this week by Parliament, under the pressure of the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic.
The text is presented while the French have, without waiting for the law, already massively resumed the path of vaccinodromes. But the bad health figures are increasing. The health agency reported on Sunday 12,532 cases detected in 24 hours, the highest level for a Sunday since mid-May.
A week after Emmanuel Macron’s announcements, on which the Head of State plays a good part of his credit for the 2022 presidential election, the bill must therefore be adopted in the morning in the Council of Ministers . The strong measures of the text, such as compulsory vaccination for caregivers and the extension of the health pass to access trains or bars and restaurants, are supported by a large majority of the population. The objective, shared in other European countries facing the rapid spread of the Delta variant, is to relaunch vaccination massively and to prevent a fourth epidemic wave from leading to a return of containment or curfew measures. when the economy picks up.
Towards a consensus
The bill should then be presented Tuesday at the end of the day in committee to the National Assembly, before the hemicycle the next day. It will be Thursday the turn of the Senate, dominated by the right, with a view to final adoption by the end of the week, at the end of the extraordinary session in July. Deputies and senators could quite quickly agree on this text which is the subject on its principles of a fairly broad approval, except La France insoumise and the National Rally.