Paris (AFP)

The Parliament adopted on Saturday the bill extending the state of health emergency after the positive vote of the deputies during the final reading of the text, but without erasing the mistrust of the oppositions on the right and on the left.

Deadline on February 16, establishment of a transitional regime until April 1, use of orders: the government highlights the "very worrying" health situation caused by the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic in France to justify the extension of this exceptional regime.

On Saturday last reading, the deputies adopted the text by 154 for and 38 against.

Socialists, Communists, LFI and LR voted against.

In the process, the deputies of the three left groups (GDR, LFI and PS) and 7 elected representatives of Liberties and Territories announced to seize the Constitutional Council on the whole of the text.

"Without in any way underestimating the health situation that the whole country is going through, we believe that this bill violates several constitutional principles", expose the 69 signatories of the appeal in a press release.

"We are preparing for a very significant shock in the days to come. Our caregivers are already on the front lines and all the French must be at their side. And that obviously starts with their representatives," said the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, at the opening of these final debates.

The parliamentary course of the text, however, took on the appearance of the Stations of the Cross for the executive.

The oppositions and the Senate have fired all wood against the government and the majority accused of "authoritarianism".

The sacred union of the political class, which had prevailed last spring, was shattered this fall, while the hiccups did not spare a disorganized majority which, at the Palais Bourbon, was sometimes found in the minority.

On Saturday, the debates quickly turned sour at the Palais Bourbon where the scandals and admonitions between the majority and the oppositions during the debates on Tuesday, in the second reading of the text, have visibly left traces.

A motion to reject LR was rejected by 39 votes in favor and 171 against.

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