“All the conditions are in place for us to have a calm debate,” said the president of the session, Marc Le Fur (of the conservative party Los Republicanos), before a full room, after the fiery verbal exchanges of the previous night between the ruling party and the opposition .
The National Assembly (Chamber of Deputies) debates the establishment of a complete vaccination passport to attend events, restaurants or to travel on intercity trains, instead of the current pass, which includes the possibility of presenting a negative PCR test or having passed recently the disease.
But when the government asked deputies to continue debating the bill beyond midnight, to make sure the law could be passed this week, the party The Republicans (LR, Conservative), along with the extreme right and radical left decided to suspend the debate.
The decision placed Macron’s party, La República en Marcha (LREM), in a delicate position: as it did not have all its deputies in the hemicycle during the vote, despite being a majority in Parliament, the opposition initiative went ahead and the debate was suspended.
French media pointed out that LR’s surprise decision, which has backed the bulk of the legislation, is an indication of growing political tension in France ahead of the presidential elections next April, for which Macron is emerging as the favorite.
The government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, pointed out that, with this maneuver, the opposition wanted to “ruin the timetable” for the implementation of the vaccination passport for purely political reasons.
“We will do everything possible to stick to the schedule set,” he told France Inter radio. The government wants the law to be approved by January 15.
The event exposed the weaknesses of LREM, a party that has failed to build a solid foundation since Macron’s meteoric rise to the presidency in 2017.
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