2023-05-04 12:17:59
They will be able to resume service. Caregivers not vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to resume their activity after the Assembly voted to repeal the vaccination obligation on Thursday. The deputies adopted at first reading a text to repeal this vaccination obligation, rather than simply suspending this obligation, as planned by the government. Jean-Victor Castor (Guyana), MP from the majority communist group, was adopted by 157 votes to 137, with the support of the various opposition groups, against the government’s opinion. The text must still be studied in the Senate.
Health Minister François Braun deplored a “regrettable message sent by this Assembly to caregivers”, which will “weaken our response capacity” in the event of a new epidemic. The government has already announced its desire to reinstate non-vaccinated caregivers, after an opinion issued to this effect by the High Authority for Health (HAS). According to a ministerial instruction consulted by AFP, they will be considered reinstated “the day after” the publication of a decree scheduled for May 14. Insufficient for Jean-Victor Castor, “the decree will only suspend the suspensions, leaving the possibility for the government” to use them again.
Disagreement in the hemicycle
Its text also provides that the agents concerned “retain the right to advancement they had before the suspension”. It was voted by the deputies LR, RN, Liot (Independent Freedoms Overseas and Territories) and the vast majority of the deputies of the left alliance Nupes present. Several overseas deputies took turns in the hemicycle to defend him.
“By preferring suspension to deletion, you are reinforcing health insecurity that these French people cannot afford”, in particular in “the Overseas Territories”, where “we cannot deprive ourselves of any health personnel”, launched to the minister the deputy of Guadeloupe Olivier Serva (Liot group). “The refusal of vaccination is the refusal of science. You are turning your back on science, ”said MoDem MP Philippe Vigier. His colleague from the presidential majority Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons group) attacked a text which will “foster anti-vaccine sentiment”.
“Do not deprive us of protection,” François Braun unsuccessfully asked the deputies. “I repeat the respect we have for scientists, for vaccination”, insisted in the hemicycle the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel, while calling for the repeal, so that a possible new vaccination obligation necessarily passes through Parliament, not by decree.
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