Paris (AFP)

The deputies Ugo Bernalicis (LFI), Aurélien Taché (New Democrats) and Stéphane Peu (PCF) denounced Thursday the health pass, a factor of "social inequality", shortly before being received by the Constitutional Council to submit a referral with 71 more of their colleagues.

In total, 74 LFI, PCF, PS, New Democrats, Liberty and Territories deputies seized the Sages of rue Montpensier to contest the bill extending the health pass.

The Council will render its decision on August 5.

The new law is due to come into force on August 9.

Since July 21, the pass is already compulsory in places of leisure and culture (cinemas, museums ...) which bring together more than 50 people.

It will be extended to café-restaurants, fairs and exhibitions, domestic flights, TGV, Intercity and night trains.

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Bernalicis, Taché and Peu asserted that this pass caused "several breaks in the principle of equality" and that there was "a disproportion in its outright generalization".

"People who wanted to start their vaccination course after the announcements of the President of the Republic (July 22) will not be able to be vaccinated on time and therefore will be obliged to do PCR tests every 48 hours, during the period of vacation. This is a flagrant break in equality, "said Bernalicis.

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For Mr. Peu, deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, "the health pass risks excluding more. Seine-Saint-Denis is the most contaminated and least vaccinated department, not because there are more antivax but quite simply because there is a map of social inequalities which marks an under-vaccination in a department where 30% of the inhabitants do not have an attending physician ".

According to the elected Communist, "the law also introduces into the labor code a differentiation between employees on fixed-term contracts or temporary workers and others, with a threat of dead loss of employment without the possibility of unemployment benefit. This is also the case. a breach of equality and a profound modification of the labor code, which puts even more in instability of the precarious public ".

Likewise, the three elected officials felt that the new school health protocol would "further increase social inequalities" and denounced the "hypocritical" nature of the health pass.

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"A surveillance society is being set up," Taché said.

"The health pass is even worse than compulsory vaccination".

The elected officials are also contesting other provisions of the law with the Constitutional Council, in particular those concerning "the reactivated state of emergency for overseas territories".

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