The examination in the Senate of the text establishing the vaccine pass, bogged down since Monday, January 3, in the National Assembly, has been postponed until next week, jeopardizing the entry into force of the law on January 15. According to the conclusions of the conference of presidents, meeting Wednesday, January 5, at the end of the afternoon around President Gérard Larcher (LR), the bill will be examined in committee on Monday afternoon.
His examination in the hemicycle, which should have started this Thursday, is now scheduled from Tuesday afternoon and until Wednesday evening. This on the assumption that the text would indeed be transmitted on time by the National Assembly, which resumed the debates on Wednesday. They had been suspended Tuesday evening after controversial remarks by President Emmanuel Macron against the unvaccinated.
More than 380 amendments remained to be considered
If the deputies did not finish the examination of the text on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the debates at the Palais Bourbon would be supposed to resume Friday. More than 380 amendments remained to be considered early Wednesday evening. “The Senate regains control of the calendar”, indicated the leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau, considering it necessary, in “a climate of hysteresis”, to “put the game”.
Once the text has been adopted by the Senate, with modifications, it will still be necessary for the deputies and the senators to find an agreement on a common version, in a joint joint committee (CMP), then for this version to be voted for the last time by the two bedrooms.
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If the CMP failed, the deadline would be further extended: the bill would be read again in both chambers, before the Assembly had the last word.
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