France Forced To Postpone "Health Dictatorship" Vaccine Legislation
France Forced To Postpone "Health
Dictatorship" Vaccine Legislation
BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY,
DEC 26, 2020 - 9:20 Authored by Steve
Watson via Summit News,
A radical bill proposed by the French Government that would see unvaccinated people refused basic services such as public transport has been put on ice after a massive backlash.
The proposed law mandates
that citizens have proof of a negative COVID test or “preventative treatment,
including the administration of a vaccine” in order to “access transport or to
some locations, as well as certain activities.”
However,
the government has been forced to delay the
legislation after angry protests.
French Health Minister Olivier Véran publicly postponed the bill
in an announcement Tuesday evening.
“Because
there needs to be trust for the French people to go and get vaccinated of their
own free will, because we’re still in a state of sanitary crisis … the
government won’t present the text [to the National Assembly] for several
months, before we’re out of the crisis,” Véran
stated.
The bill was lambasted by political figures across the spectrum,
with conservative MP Fabien Di Filippo labelling it “vaccine blackmail.”
RN leader Marine Le Pen branded the vaccine measure “essentially
totalitarian.”
“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.
RN party spokesman Sebastien Chenu called the plan a “health
dictatorship,” while centrist senator Nathalie Goulet said the draft was “an
attack on public freedoms.”
Guillaume Peltier, deputy leader of the center-right LR party, warned
that the law would allow the government to “get all the power to suspend our
freedoms without parliamentary control.”
France’s vaccination program, set to get underway on Sunday,
will not be mandatory, but a majority of 55% of citizens say they will not get
the shot.
As we previously highlighted, France has imposed some of the strictest lockdown measures in Europe, with citizens having to fill out a form every time they leave their home.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/france-forced-postpone-health-dictatorship-vaccine-legislation
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