The Minister of Health, François Braun, regrets an “alliance of circumstance” between La France insoumise, Les Républicains and the National Rally.
It was a clap of thunder that shook the Hemicycle last night. And above all, the Renaissance deputies (ex-La République en Marche). Tuesday evening, July 12, parliamentarians debated the health bill on the Covid-19 pandemic. A text approved with the notable exception of article 2, which provided for the return of the sanitary pass at the borders.
The Macron camp reacted immediately, pointing to a convergence of oppositions. “By joining forces to vote against the measures to protect the French against Covid LFI, the LRs and the RN prevent any border control against the virus“said Élisabeth Borne on Twitter. For their part, the deputies of the majority were in turn moved by the outcome of the vote. “And here we are!!! The extreme right and the extreme left unitedexclaimed Prisca Thevenot, MP for Hauts-de-Seine. “That the rebellious vote against the government, we knew it. That they do it with the RN, we suspected. But to see so-called “left” deputies screaming with joy while voting with the extreme right? Shame on those who gladly rush into an objective red-brown alliance“, lambasted in turn David Amiel, walker of the first hour and deputy in Paris. The rebellious deputy Adrien Quatennens replied: “We did not agree with the RN to vote together. (…) It is unbearable to see that when democracy works, Madame Borne takes offense by saying that the situation is serious, by dramatizing the issue.»
“Article 2 is fair and relevant”
For his part, the Minister of Health François Braun, invited on RTL, does not intend to give up anytime soon. And if the possibility ofcontrol our borders in the face of the emergence of a more dangerous variant“, has been “currently deleted», «I will continue to fight“. “I am going to continue to convince, as soon as possible, at Senateto explain that these provisions must be defended, that this article 2 is fair, relevant.“Denouncing a”alliance of circumstance between LFI, RN and LR“, the Minister of Health says”respect the state of the discussions“, believing that his”only compass” is “the protection of the health of the French.»
Naturally, the oppositions rejoiced at this setback, while seeking to claim themselves as the first opponents of macronie. “There’s something going onNational Assemblysomething we weren’t used to for five years: democracy“Commented Sandrine Rousseau. “It is made in the noise, amendment by amendment, bill after bill“warned MP Nupes. “Thanks to the opposition of RN deputies, the article which made it possible to restore the health pass at the borders has just been rejected!said Sébastien Chenu, vice-president of the National Assembly and deputy for the North.