«Ensure benefits are paid properlyis one of the objectives of such a device, perceived as a concession to the right.
The idea of a biometric Vitale card to fight against social fraud, demanded for a long time by the right and the extreme right, “worth working on“and the government”will support a parliamentary missionon the subject, Health Minister François Braun said on Tuesday. “We must ensure that benefits are paid properly, that contributions and social security contributions are fully collected“, he declared to the National Assembly, assuring that the executive would not have “no leniency towards those who defraud».
The experimentation of a dematerialized Vitale card in progress
Advocating “a rational approach to this subject through an objective assessment of the shortfall and the adoption of appropriate measures“, François Braun recalled that the experimentation of a dematerialized Vitale card was in progress and that he “worth evaluating“. Nevertheless, the track of a biometric card, raised by the deputy of Isère Thibault Bazin (LR), “worth working on“, indicated the Minister, judging there also necessary to “assess the conditions of effectiveness (and) feasibility in conjunction with professionals“. Therefore, “the government will support a parliamentary mission to monitor the ongoing deployment of the new Vitale card, without any taboos and without prejudice, and to assess its relevance and possible developments“, he added.
A positioning like a change of foot
A concession to the parliamentary right made “at the request of the Prime Minister“Élisabeth Borne, he specified, the executive thus wanting to show itself”listening to constructive ideas to move our country forward in a cross-partisan way“, while a bitter debate has just started on his “purchasing power” bill.
This positioning will appear as a change of foot because the presidential majority had rejected a bill by LR senators on the same subject at the end of 2020, in particular in the name of “protection of privacy and personal data“. This did not prevent three of the five contenders for the presidential primary from the same party (Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier, Éric Ciotti) from taking up this idea, which was already on Nicolas Sarkozy’s program in 2012, but also that of Marine Le Pen in the last three presidential elections.