They take over. According to information from France Inter confirmed by Le Parisien, the RN has tabled a bill aimed at reintegrating caregivers – and, more broadly, all staff – not vaccinated, who had been excluded from health establishments as part of the fight against Covid-19.
The party has not yet confirmed whether it will include this proposal in the program of its parliamentary niche, which will take place on January 12. “We do not forbid ourselves anything”, confided an executive of the RN to Parisian. Reintegrating caregivers not vaccinated against Covid-19 was one of Marine Le Pen’s campaign promises.
Differences between the two texts
At the beginning of October, France Insoumise had already tabled a bill to this effect, which was to be examined in the hemicycle during the party’s parliamentary niche last Thursday. But, by dint of amendments tabled urgently, it could not be voted on in the Assembly. The opposition castigated the “manoeuvres” of the presidential camp to slow down the debates and the invectives even flared up, up to a “You’re going to close it”, launched by the elected Guadeloupean Olivier Serva (Liot) to the Renaissance group.
There is still a difference in size between the two bills, according to France Inter: unlike the text tabled by Caroline Fiat which provided for a “specific health protocol” – with, in particular, the presentation of a negative test -, that of the RN does not provide anything to replace vaccination.
The vaccination obligation for health personnel was put in place in September 2021. And, for the government, there is no question of backtracking on the subject yet. This Friday, Emmanuel Macron felt that it was necessary to rely on science and not on political choices to make this decision. “If scientists (…) tell us that it is desirable from a scientific point of view to reintegrate these caregivers, the government must do so”, declared the head of state during a trip to Dijon. . “It is not a political choice”, he added, scolding “caregivers who consider that it is not an ethical duty to be vaccinated”.