Deputies and senators reached an agreement Thursday in a joint joint committee on the health bill, which ratifies the end of the exceptional measures against the Covid but provides for a possible recourse to health checks at the borders.
The parliamentarians – 7 senators and 7 deputies – have retained in their entirety the version of the text voted on overnight by the Senate dominated by the right. The LFI and RN representatives voted against, the Socialists abstained, we learned from parliamentary sources.
The Minister of Health Franois Braun congratulated himself on Twitter on this consensus in the service of the protection of the French. The bill must still be voted on Monday in the National Assembly, then Tuesday in the Senate.
The version validated in CMP provides for the express repeal of regimes allowing the establishment of restrictions on freedoms, such as confinement, curfew or past health. A point of satisfaction for LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis.
It introduces a key article on health control at the borders, which had been deleted by the deputies by a conjunction of votes from the RN, LR and a majority of the left alliance Nupes.
The tight system built by the LR rapporteur for the Senate Philippe Bas provides that in the event of the appearance of a new, particularly dangerous variant of Covid, the government may impose the presentation of a negative test on boarding. A similar system may apply for trips from or to overseas communities, in the event of a risk of saturation of their health system.
Socialists and centrists have deplored the abandonment of any reference to the vaccine as justification, a bad blow to public health policy, according to the centrist group in the Senate.
The only change made in the CMP: the government will be able to set up this health control by decree for two months, instead of one month initially planned by the Senate. Beyond that, a vote by Parliament will be necessary.
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The text also creates a path for the reintegration of suspended caregivers, once the vaccination obligation is no longer medically justified.
I think this article is cavalier and dangerous. But I do not see how the High Authority of Health could come out in favor of the reintegration of caregivers, so it is neutralized, estimates Sacha Houli (Renaissance), the president of the Law Commission of the Assembly.
The PS senators, fervent defenders of the vaccination obligation, plan to seize the Constitutional Council on this question, indicated Bernard Jomier. Conversely, Mr. Bernalicis deplored that this provision in no way acts on the demand for the reinstatement of suspended personnel.
Finally, the text makes it possible to extend the tools for monitoring the SI-DEP epidemic (until June 30, 2023) and Contact Covid (until January 31, 2023).