He gave the green light. The Constitutional Council validated, on Saturday July 30, the new health bill. Definitively adopted by Parliament on Tuesday, this text puts an end, as of Sunday, to the health pass and other exceptional measures against Covid-19. However, its promulgation had was briefly suspended, due to an appeal filed by 60 deputies from La France insoumise (LFI).
Decision no. 2022-840 DC of July 30, 2022 [Loi mettant fin aux régimes d’exception créés pour lutter contre l’épidémie liée à la covid-19] Compliancehttps://t.co/coBqRA3Ned pic.twitter.com/ROY2rJcH28
— Constitutional Council (@Conseil_constituent) July 30, 2022
“The wise men of the Constitutional Council then had eight days to decide on the text, since it was an emergency examination. They did it in half the time”Explain The Parisianwhich specifies that a “hearing was held Thursday afternoon”. LFI deputies believe that the overseas territories have been the subject of a difference in treatment “unjustified”. They therefore seized the Constitutional Council on this subject.
Indeed, this text allows a possible reestablishment of a health control at the borders, via a negative Covid screening test, in the event of the appearance of a new particularly dangerous variant. And the same system may apply for trips from mainland France to overseas communities, “in case of risk of saturation” of their healthcare system, for example. HASwhen towards the mainland, it could be imposed in the event of a new dangerous variant. What constitutes, in their view, “a significant difference in treatment depending on the place of origin of the displacement”.
Referral of case no. 2022-841 DC on July 29, 2022.
Law containing various provisions for adaptation to European Union law on the prevention of the dissemination of terrorist content online – Referral by more than 60 deputies https://t.co/g7r4vplsoT pic.twitter.com/QNzGuduiBI
— Constitutional Council (@Conseil_constituent) July 29, 2022
But the Elders found these incriminated provisions to be constitutional. “The principle of equality does not prevent the legislator from regulating different situations differently, nor from derogating from equality for reasons of general interest, provided that, in one and the other case, the resulting difference in treatment is directly related to the object of the law which establishes it”underlines the Constitutional Council.