The Minister of Health, François Braun, said on Wednesday “totally available to build a new drafting” in the Senate of the health pass at the borders, after the rejection of this measure in the bill adopted overnight by the Assembly national.
Removed by a coalition of opposition deputies, from both right and left (RN, LR, Nupes), this key article of the health monitoring and security text planned to leave the executive the possibility of restoring the health past from or abroad, but also between France, Corsica and the overseas territories.
Opposition headwind against measure
After this setback, the government will be fully engaged in the Senate to defend the importance of these provisions and restore them, Braun said during a hearing before the Senate Law Committee.
The interest was to give us the ability to react quickly to the emergence of a dangerous variant (…) To no longer have this possibility is definitely wasting time, he explained.
I have a bit of the impression that without this article, in the event of an epidemic resurgence with a particularly annoying variant, we are asked to jump from the plane without a parachute, telling us do not worry, we will bring you a very quickly before you crash to the ground. I confess that I would rather jump out of the plane with a parachute, he added.
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The Minister nevertheless said he was totally available to build a new version of this article, which would take into account the various comments, but which would allow us to leave at least one ventral parachute.