Yesterday afternoon, after the discussions in the National Assembly and the Senate, the debates on the vaccination pass took place in a joint committee (CMP). They should have resulted in an agreement between the two chambers, if Bruno Retailleau, President of the Republicans in the Senate, had not declared victory too soon. Simple clumsiness, or premeditated rollover?
A premature tweet
On Twitter, he wrote at 5:45 p.m. that the CMP had ruled in favor of the Senate and that it was “ the victory of common sense » :
The CMP on the #passevaccinal gave reason to #Senate, it is the victory of common sense. Senators have obtained many clarifications and simplifications. The pass is intended to protect the French and nothing else … no offense to Emmanuel Macron
– Bruno Retailleau (@BrunoRetailleau) January 13, 2022
However, the joint parity commission was not over. Neither one nor two, the LREM majority jumped to the ceiling. Yaël Braun-Pivet, LREM deputy and president of the CMP, assured that it was a ” intolerable interference with the functioning of our institutions “. The commission was therefore declared inconclusive because of this leak.
A donkey hat for the Republicans
In the entourage of a senator LR, while noting that the reactions to the quack are part of the classic ” squabble “Between the two chambers, we regret its instrumentalisation by the majority, even if it is” good war ”, Because the final text risks to ignore the modifications voted by the Senate, modest but welcome, in particular for the constraints imposed on the children.
Philippe Bas and Ian Boucard, both senators from the LR group, defended their president. If the first underlined ” overreaction “, The second went so far as to denounce” a pretext by all means to make this CMP fail “. They ” jumped at the chance to make us out of date “, He added then.
A theory that Ugo Bernalicis, rebellious French deputy and substitute member of the CMP, seems to share. In a posted video on Twitter, he explained that this event would allow the majority to ” to be able to say is the fault of the Republicans If the text is not adopted.
Discredit the opposition …
« Pécresse, either she does not hold her troops, or she does duplicity », Exclaimed Amélie de Montchalin. on RMC a week ago, pointing to a non-existent spine among Republicans, especially about the vaccine pass. First, in the National Assembly, the LR deputies had effectively shown themselves to be against the evolution of sesame, while the senators did the opposite three days later, to finally derail all the discussions during the CMP.
In a press release, Mr. Retailleau quickly denounced a whim of the majority, assuring that no ” pretext of form could not justify before the French the calling into question of an agreement on the merits “. However, it is hard to believe that the senator did not know the rules of the in camera. How hard to believe that such a small variation in form could slow down the majority in their mad rush towards the vaccine pass.
Since the start of the crisis, when it came to the urgent need for sanitary measures, procedures have tended to be shortened and formalities flouted. This time, any excuse seems good, on both sides, to delay the implementation of the vaccination pass. Sign of a procrastination of the executive?
… and at the same time, camouflage procrastination?
Faced with recent pressure and tensions, whether they stem from demonstrations, petitions, small disavowals by administrative justice or international news, is the majority masking a hesitation on the advisability of vaccine pass, while wearing the donkey cap to the competition that represent the Republicans?
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The proportions taken by this episode underline in any case that Macronie is undoubtedly not so solid and serene on this question as it intends to display it.
The Parisian related yesterday a “clash” between Olivier Véran and Jean-Michel Blanquer which occurred just before the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the Minister of National Education criticizing his colleague for his lack of support while he is entangled in a massive strike by teachers exasperated by the waltz of health protocols at school.
The true-false ” blow of the curtain ”Which had led to the suspension of debates in the Assembly on the night of January 3 to 4 was perhaps also a warning signal. Even if it was of little consequence in substance, this coup de theater would no doubt not have surprised an extremely determined and fully mobilized majority. The crestfallen face of Olivier Véran, distraught on his ministers’ bench faced with this unexpected setback, illustrated a certain hesitation …
The government wanted to adopt this vaccine pass at a forced march, but the grains of sand in the machine are multiplying. The sign that he fears being out of time, as the presidential election draws closer, and that the evolution of the epidemic is not alarming, as evidenced by the changes in approach of European countries like Denmark , the United Kingdom, and now Spain?
The text of the bill will have to go back to the National Assembly first, then to the Senate, which further delays the government calendar, which initially provided for its application for January 15.
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