Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson, was the guest of 8:30 am franceinfo on Wednesday 10 November. Health pass, candidate speech and unemployment insurance, he answered questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
The health pass conditional on the vaccine booster
“Thanks to vaccination we have built a wall against the serious forms of the virus, this wall must not crack“, underlined Gabriel Attal, spokesman of the government, this Wednesday on franceinfo, the day after the announcements of Emmanuel Macron.”What they say is that from December 15, for those who will be over 65 and who will have had their complete vaccination schedule for six months and five weeks, their health pass will be deactivated if they do not. their booster dose“, clarified Gabriel Attal. In other words,”if you are over 65 and took your second dose six months ago, you have five weeks to take your booster“. A decision which also welcomes the president of the Confederation of medical unions.
According to the government spokesperson, there will be “alerts“to remind the public concerned of the importance of the vaccination booster, in particular through health insurance.
A president on the campaign trail?
Accused by the opposition of having used this allocation for electoral purposes, Emmanuel Macron only made a normal speech as a president according to the government spokesman: “What we saw yesterday was a President of the Republic who told us about the health crisis, the vaccine booster, the economic recovery and the reforms to come in the country. Listening to the opposition, one would have the impression that we have to move from five-year to three-year terms, stop acting because we are approaching the presidential election. It is normal that the President of the Republic explains himself on all the subjects at the heart of the life of the French“
Reinforced job search controls
“We will increase controls to ensure that there are good job searches“, announces Gabriel Attal. The President of the Republic assured that job seekers who do not demonstrate an active job search will be suspended from their rights to unemployment benefits. This is already the case today, independently of the recent unemployment insurance reform, the last part of which comes into force on 1 December.
Gabriel Attal argues that there will be “25% more checks in the next six months, especially in stressful sectors where there are a lot of unfilled jobs, where business leaders find it difficult to recruit“, such as catering or construction.
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