Louis de Raguenel 2:12 p.m., September 15, 2021, modified at 2:17 p.m., September 15, 2021
Since this Wednesday morning, caregivers have the obligation to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
They will have to justify at least one dose to go to work.
If they refuse, it will be suspension.
At least on paper.
Because the executive plays the balancing act on this subject, between the need to fight against the epidemic and the concern to preserve caregivers already very tested.
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That's it, since Wednesday morning, all caregivers must be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Otherwise, it is the sanction: they will be suspended and, therefore, deprived of salary.
And according to the latest figures available, 300,000 nursing staff had not received any dose on Tuesday evening.
A figure that prompts the executive to be cautious, and perhaps not to be as firm as it claims.
Firmness at Véran, suppleness at the Elysée
The government, in fact, is playing a balancing act.
In front of the cameras, Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, will show firmness and discuss the sanctions, recalling that the refractories were warned.
Concretely, there will be, at first, the staging of some sanctions or on the contrary, of caregivers who have ended up being vaccinated.
And then, on the other side, at the Elysee Palace, we procrastinate.
An adviser to the president explains to us: "We don't really want to show the sanctions. Especially since the epidemic is on the decline".
Within the executive, we do not forget that caregivers were strongly mobilized during the crisis, that they are poorly paid.
No need, therefore, to add a layer.
Restrictions lifted in ten days?
And then we look closely at the situation in Denmark, which decided, at the beginning of the week, to lift all the constraints, and even to get rid of the health pass.
Moreover, in ten days, the main players in the management of the health crisis in France will take stock.
And on the table there is the possibility of starting to lift some restrictions.
Why not, therefore, impose sanctions if certain constraints can be lifted?
The question remains unanswered.
Finally, there is a really political subject.
While Marine Le Pen is trying to establish himself as a defender of freedoms, the Elysee's instructions to several ministers are clear: no question of making Emmanuel Macron pass for a liberticidal president.