The session of Tuesday July 12 was chaotic in the National Assembly. MPs gave a first green light to the bill “now temporarily maintaining a monitoring and health security system in the fight against Covid-19”amputated however by an article, which maintained the possibility of the return of the “sanitary pass” for travelers “extra-hexagonal”.
Thirteen votes were organized at the Palais-Bourbon on Tuesday on the articles and the various amendments to this law. The one that made the most noise is 13e vote, the one devoted to the vote of article 2 and which benefited from the votes “against” of a good part of the elected Republicans (LR) and the four entities of the intergroup New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), thus exceeding the votes of the majority; with 219 votes against 195, the voices of the seventeen non-voting members of the government would not have changed anything.
Finally, later in the night, the 432 deputies gathered in the hemicycle put the entire bill to the vote, validated this time by 211 votes against 187; with disunity in certain groups, such as Les Républicains (31 for, 8 against) or among the Socialists (3 against and 14 abstentions).
The text voted on at first reading is therefore now essentially reduced to its article 1, which makes it possible to continue to collect health data on screening tests (SI-Dep device). It is this data that allows us, for example, to feed our dashboard dedicated to Covid-19 in France and around the world.