The debates will resume. Discussions on the bill creating the vaccine pass, interrupted unexpectedly Monday evening, must continue this Tuesday evening before the National Assembly, according to parliamentary sources. At midnight, a majority of deputies had refused, by a show of hands, the continuation of the meeting. A surprise and a snub for the parliamentary majority. The oppositions, who mobilized to derail this review, welcomed it.
The Conference of Presidents of the Assembly, which brings together the heads of the political groups and the Minister for Relations with Parliament, must decide at midday to put the bill back on the agenda at the end of the day. day, after questions to the government and a vote on the 3DS text on decentralization. Then the discussions will resume around 10:30 p.m. or 11 p.m., after a debate planned by LR on domestic violence.
This bodes well for a long night, with more than 500 amendments remaining on the menu. The review could continue on Wednesday afternoon if necessary.
“Amateurs one day, always amateurs”
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday that the executive would “do everything to keep as close as possible to the schedule that was planned”, that is, an entry into force of the vaccination pass on January 15.
VIDEO. The electric evening of the National Assembly during the debates on the vaccine pass
“I understood that the night had been a little agitated”, declared Prime Minister Jean Castex in the morning, in front of the assembled LREM deputies. “It is not up to the situation,” he said, according to reported comments. For him, “there is an answer: that we be more united and more determined than ever. This is what our majority should wear ”.
The LREM deputies were outvoted at midnight, underlined the president of the LR group, Damien Abad, mocking “amateurs one day, amateurs always”. But Christophe Castaner, leader of the majority group, defended his troops: “I sometimes have rants to push. There, objectively, no. We were there, present, ”he told them in a group meeting. “We have seen a blow from the LR with the other oppositions, with a fairly obvious combination of circumstances,” he pointed out, according to a participant. “The group (LR) has released Valérie Pécresse”, favorable to the vaccine pass, still believes Christophe Castaner.