Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, on December 10, in Paris.
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Simple announcement effect or real postponement?
While Olivier Véran reassured the political opposition, worried about certain measures provided for in the bill relating to the management of health emergencies, by announcing that it would not be examined "for several months", Internet users are worried to see it still on the parliamentary agenda.
The examination of this text is in fact still scheduled on the agenda of the National Assembly on January 19 and 20.
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, the National Assembly indicates that this agenda is likely to be modified at any time by the government.
What was akin, Wednesday evening, December 22, to a clear victory for opponents of the government bill "establishing a sustainable management system for health emergencies" would it have been a success in misleading eye?
Part of the political class, as of public opinion, had rebelled throughout the day against this text, believing that it established, in the bend of one of its provisions, a backhanded obligation of vaccination against the Covid-19.
But Olivier Véran had announced, the same evening to the JT of TF1, the postponement of his parliamentary examination.
Vaccination against # COVID19 will not be mandatory.
The bill which aims to strengthen the means of 🇫🇷 facing epidemics will not serve as a pretext for those who want to sow trouble.
Its examination is postponed until the end of the health crisis.
@ TF1LeJT pic.twitter.com/0PacevLqNQ
- Olivier Véran (@olivierveran) December 23, 2020
After recalling that the vaccination against Covid-19 would not be compulsory "neither to take public transport, nor to enter a restaurant and obviously to go to work", the Minister of Health in fact told viewers that " in the context that we know, because it takes confidence that the French can be vaccinated freely, because we are still in a state of health crisis and because there is a curfew, the government will not propose not this text before Parliament for several months, before being out of the crisis.
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However, many Internet users relay from the same message to express their doubts about the veracity of this commitment: “On TF1, Véran says that the Castex bill will not be tabled for several months.
Really ?
We will have to explain to us why the discussion of this project is scheduled for January 19 and 20 in the agenda of the National Assembly!
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With, as proof, the screenshot of a table devoted to the subjects on the agenda of the Assembly on those dates, including the famous bill "establishing a sustainable emergency management regime. sanitary ”.
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This agenda is on the program of the National Assembly of January 19 and 20, as can be seen in the "green sheet" available on the institution's website.
And as we indicated yesterday, before the announcement of the postponement of the project, it was originally to be examined in January by the Law Commission.
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, the National Assembly tells us that “to date, the green sheet established following the Conference of Presidents of December 15 provides for the examination of the text in public session on January 19 and 20.
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It specifies, however, that this agenda is “subject to change at any time during the meeting of a conference of presidents, which is held every week when the Assembly is in session and more if necessary, according to the political priorities of the moment.
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However, if these modifications are the responsibility of parliamentarians meeting within the Conference of Presidents (made up, in particular, of the president and the six vice-presidents of the National Assembly), this is not the case during sessions reserved for the government, during which the Assembly cannot decide, as it specifies on its site.
An agenda for the government
In this case, "the week of January 19 being a week reserved for the government, it is master of the agenda and is quite free to change the text entered in public session, if it wishes" , the institution tells us.
To do this, the government simply needs to send a letter to the President of the Assembly or - even if “this is much rarer” - that one of its members makes a “simple declaration” in order to “change the situation”. order of the texts entered, remove a text from the agenda, or even, exceptionally, enter a text that was not provided for ”, according to the detailed protocol on the National Assembly website.
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, neither the office of the Minister of Health, nor Matignon had responded to our requests before the publication of the article.
But the National Assembly told us for its part that it would know more "at the start of the school year, after the meeting of a new conference of presidents", ie the week of January 12, 2021.
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