{"id":223709,"date":"2020-12-23T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223709"},"modified":"2020-12-25T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T08:08:32","slug":"the-everyday-restrictions-people-who-refuse-the-covid-19-vaccine-in-france-could-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223709","title":{"rendered":"The everyday restrictions people who refuse the Covid-19 vaccine in France could face"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFP \u2013 Dec 22, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

People who fail to get a Covid-19 vaccination could be banned from using public transport in France, according to a draft law sparking angry protests from opposition politicians on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Jean Castex on Monday got his cabinet’s backing for a bill<\/a> that is designed to provide a legal framework for dealing with health crises, including the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

According to the text, which will now be submitted to parliament, a negative Covid test or proof of a “preventative treatment, including the administration of a vaccine” could be required for people to be granted “access to transport or to some locations, as well as certain activities”.<\/p>\n

According to opinion polls, 55 percent of French people say they will not get a Covid-19 shot, one of the highest rates in the European Union.<\/p>\n

President Emmanuel Macron has promised that coronavirus vaccinations, though strongly recommended, will not be mandatory.<\/p>\n

But opposition politicians condemned the draft law, with Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party, calling it an “essentially totalitarian” measure.<\/p>\n

“In a backhanded way, this bill does not aim to make vaccinations mandatory, but will prevent anybody who doesn’t comply from having a social life,” she said.<\/p>\n

RN party spokesman Sebastien Chenu said Macron’s government was planning “a\u00a0health dictatorship”.<\/p>\n

Guillaume Peltier, deputy leader of the centre-right Les R\u00e9publicains (LR) party, said it was “inconceivable” that the government should be allowed to “get all the power to suspend our freedoms without parliamentary control.”<\/p>\n

Centrist senator Nathalie Goulet said the draft was “an attack on public freedoms”, while the far-left deputy Alexis Corbi\u00e8re said “we could a least have a collective discussion if the idea is to limit our public liberties.”<\/p>\n

In response, Public Sector Minister Amelie de Montchalin said the bill was “not at all made to create exceptional powers for the government” or “create a health state.”<\/p>\n

She said there would be a debate about the bill during which “everything that needs clarification will be clarified.”<\/p>\n

The EU gave the green light for a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monda<\/a>y, paving the way for the first inoculations to start across 27 countries just after Christmas.<\/p>\n

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