to give up meetings, “it is not at all the spirit of the moment”, assures Thierry Solère

Give up meetings during the presidential campaign, “it is not at all the spirit of the moment”, assured Thierry Solère, political advisor to Emmanuel Macron and LREM deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, Tuesday, December 28, on franceinfo. He was invited to react to the words of the former Minister of the Interior and MEP LR Brice Hortefeux, Monday on franceinfo. This last “think” than the big meetings, “It’s over”, due to the multiplication of cases of Covid-19.

“We can continue to hold meetings, we have to do it”, continued Thierry Solère, but “with a principle of responsibility”, to know “ask for a health pass at the moment and a vaccination pass tomorrow, at the entrance of a room”. “The Constitution does not oblige political formations and candidates to any constraint whatsoever”, he observed. Nevertheless “responsibility dictates that any meeting organizer [fasse] Warning”. Thus, the choice of Eric Zemmour not to require the presentation of the health pass to attend his first meeting of presidential candidate, on December 5, was according to the deputy LREM “perfectly irresponsible”.

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In a notice dated May 31, the Constitutional Council indeed indicated that political meetings did not fall within the scope of large gatherings of people where participants must have a health pass.