After the thunderous failure on Thursday of a compromise with the Senate, the National Assembly recovered on Friday afternoon the bill establishing the vaccination pass, with the prospect that it only applies to over 16 year.
The deputies will look at from 3:00 p.m. on a version of the bill close to that voted last week at first reading, but with certain modifications, sometimes inspired by the examination in the Senate dominated by the right.
Thus, the presentation of a vaccination pass should be limited only to people over 16 years of age, for access to leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport.
Minors aged 12 to 15 would remain subject to the obligation to present the current health pass, that is to say that they could go to a restaurant for example by producing the negative result of a simple test. screening.
The Senate will examine the bill again on Saturday, then the National Assembly will have the last word probably on Sunday, for its final adoption, we learned from a parliamentary source.
While an agreement on this key text in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic seemed close on Thursday afternoon, the joint deputies-senators committee ended in failure, after a tweet from the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau.
The latter proclaimed a “victory of common sense” of his own, which made the majority jump, in the name of respect for the functioning of Parliament.
“The National Assembly has always put the interest and health of the French before political calculations. We never preempt the outcome of a debate,” reacted Friday the president of the institution Richard Ferrand (LREM).
“When a joint committee is successful, it is a success for both assemblies. I know that President Larcher shares this conviction,” he added in comments sent to AFP, after having had two times the LR President of the Senate online.