Unsurprising result. The deputies adopted the controversial bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass at second reading, on the night of Friday January 14 to Saturday January 15. Started at 3 p.m., the second reading of the text with the examination of nearly 450 amendments ended around 4 a.m. with adoption by 185 votes for, 69 against and 8 abstentions, in a electric atmosphere.
MEPs vote again on the text on the #VaccinationPass.
>> The positions of the groups:
For: LaREM, MoDem, LR and Agir
Against: LFI, PS, GDR, UDI and Libertés & Territoires#DirectAN pic.twitter.com/tbdj0WCuAu—LCP (@LCP) January 15, 2022
After the failure of a compromise with the Senate, the deputies worked on a version of the bill close to that voted last week in first reading, but with certain modifications, sometimes inspired by the examination in the Senate dominated by the law. The vaccination pass will no longer apply to adolescents between 12 and 16 years old, who are still subject to the health pass.
“Verification of identity concordance” with the pass, strengthening of sanctions against false passes, possibility of making access to political meetings subject to the presentation of a health or vaccination pass… The debates stumbled on the same provisions as at first reading, without the government and majority changing course.
The opponents of the text did not disarm, like the elected representatives of La France insoumise. They unsuccessfully defended a prior rejection motion against a text of “constraint” and scrapped on each of their amendments, multiplying the scratches against the majority and the executive. Accused of “political maneuver” with this text then the failure of the Joint Joint Committee (CMP), LREM and its allies put forward their “responsibility” and underlined the divisions at LR based on the votes.
Started on December 29 in committee, the marathon of this twelfth health emergency text since March 2020 will end on Sunday afternoon, with a final vote by the National Assembly.