The National Assembly adopted this Thursday, May 4, at first reading, a text to repeal the Covid-19 vaccination obligation for caregivers, rather than simply suspending this obligation, as the government wants.
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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.
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The Minister of Health deplores “a regrettable message”
Health Minister François Braun lamented a “regrettable message sent by this Assembly to caregivers”who go “weakening our response capacity” in the event of a new epidemic. The text must still be studied in the Senate.
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 “ of the publication of a decree scheduled for May 14.
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Insufficient for Jean-Victor Castor, “the decree will only suspend the suspensions, leaving the possibility to the government” to use it again. 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 (Freedoms Independent 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.
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Deletion rather than suspension
“By preferring suspension to deletion, you reinforce health insecurity that these French people cannot afford”especially in “overseas territories”Or “we cannot deprive ourselves of any health personnel”launched 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”, rebuked MoDem MP Philippe Vigier. His colleague from the presidential majority Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons group) attacked a text that goes “fostering anti-vaccine sentiment”. “Do not deprive us of protection”asked without success François Braun to the deputies.
“I reiterate 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, and not by decree.
