Vaccine pass: Anne Hidalgo spokesperson denounces the government’s “hypocrisy”

“The government is not assuming its responsibilities.” Invited in Europe morning Thursday, the spokesperson for Anne Hidalgo and socialist deputy for Tarn-et-Garonne, Valérie Rabault, lambasted the will of the executive to set up a vaccine pass from January to curb the spread of Covid-19 and its variant Omicron. For her, and a large part of the PS, compulsory vaccination for adults is the best solution.

“The government is running after time”

“The government is running after time. The transformation of the health pass into a vaccine pass is hypocrisy!” Said the spokesperson for the Socialist presidential candidate at the microphone of Lionel Gougelot. Affirming her position, Valérie Rabault recalled that as of last July, “with parliamentarians and our fellow senators, we were the only ones to propose compulsory vaccination for all adults”.

MP PS put forward a system with the Primary Health Insurance Fund which would have made it possible to call unvaccinated people to take their first dose. “There are departments like Seine-Saint-Denis which are less vaccinated. It is not because there would be more people against the vaccine. It is also because there are people far from the vaccination and information centers “, she explained to the microphone of Europe 1.

“In principle, we will vote” for the vaccination pass

“(The government) only has to assume the desire for compulsory vaccination, to take its responsibilities because when you put a pass, you transfer the responsibility for controlling this pass to others,” she said. added, not closing the door to a positive vote for the vaccine pass project. “I am waiting to see the text, of what is put in it, but in principle, we will vote on it, subject to checking everything that could be added”.

The spokesperson for Anne Hidalgo also criticized the “hypocrisy” of the executive’s strategy on the corporate health pass. After the failure of the discussion with the social partners, the government will ask a member of the majority to propose an amendment in this direction. “We add a layer of hypocrisy,” she said, emphasizing “a sleight of hand”. However, “if there was no agreement with the social partners, we will not vote” on the amendment, explained Valérie Rabault on Europe 1.