As an air of relief for the government. The National Assembly finally voted this Monday afternoon on the Covid-19 bill with 184 votes in favor and 149 against. The Senate must now definitively approve the text on Tuesday.
After the snub inflicted by the opposition on the executive in mid-July by expurgating it from article 2 and its main provision, the possible return of the health pass at the borders and between continental and overseas France and Corsica, the Senate played the negotiation card with the government
LRs happy with this text
In the menu of this text extensively revised by the upper house, now adopted by the Palais-Bourbon, there is now a mandatory PCR test at the borders in the event of a dangerous variant and the possibility of reintegrating unvaccinated health personnel as soon as possible. since there will no longer be a “medical reason” to ask them for the mandatory vaccination.
LR deputies welcomed this compromise, such as Philippe Gosselin who saw in it “a text that had nothing to do with previous versions”.
Insubordinate France, for its part, lamented the reestablishment of the possibility of requiring a health certificate to travel between France and the Overseas Territories and announced that it wanted to seize the Constitutional Council.
Source: BFM TV
