The health pass may be required at least until July 31, 2022. This is the main provision of the “health vigilance” bill, definitively adopted by the National Assembly this Friday, with 118 votes in favor and 89 against.
The text is far from having achieved unanimity. On October 29, the senators voted on a revised version of the text that moved the end of the pass authorization to February 28.
After this date, Parliament’s work will indeed be suspended for the time of the presidential and legislative elections.
But, unsurprisingly, the majority in the Assembly ultimately had the final say.
Seventy-five deputies, including those from the socialist groups and La France Insoumise, have filed an appeal to challenge the bill before the Constitutional Council.
The bill specifies that the use of this measure must be justified by a series of criteria (vaccination rate, test positivity rate, saturation rate of intensive care beds), but it does not set any numerical thresholds.
