Paris (AFP)

The deputies LR will vote against the bill extending the state of health emergency, examined Thursday in the Assembly, if the government does not amend the text in particular on the responsibility of the elected officials, affirmed the boss of the group Damien Abad.

"The ball is in the government's court, either it accepts the version we have proposed in the Senate and we will vote the text, or it is not the case and we will vote against," he said on Sud Radio. .

The measure voted by the senators (majority LR) stipulated that "no one can see his criminal responsibility engaged" for contaminations by the coronavirus during the state of health emergency, except in case of deliberate intention, recklessness or negligence.

The text was then amended by the Law Committee at the Assembly, in particular by LREM to take into account "the state of scientific knowledge at the time of the facts". A "red line" according to Mr. Abad, because it would lead to "a system of generalized amnesty".

In addition, beyond elected officials in the field, this amendment "is more aimed at ministers and directors of central administration", he told AFP.

The boss of the LR group also wanted parliament to vote "month by month" on the extension of the state of emergency, and he rejected the system planned to trace infected people because "there are no more anonymity, volunteering and data are kept for a year "which" seems completely disproportionate to us ".

While the Prime Minister must present the details of the deconfinement in the afternoon, Mr. Abad wished "a real territorial differentiation" and that "in the green departments, we reopen more things", especially so that "the shops and cafes under certain conditions "may" initiate this movement ".

Deploring the continued closure of the beaches, he said "symbolic of this government of fear", he said that "we went from caution to immobility".

Finally, on the assumption of an increase in working time, he estimated that "the recovery cannot be done on the back of the employees" but "with the employees".

"I do not believe in the great principles of blood and tears. Many French people will leave marked by this deconfinement and will need an economic and social breath," he said, calling on "let it happen on a case by case basis. case at enterprise level ".

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