Opposition MPs defeated a proposal by Emmanuel Macron’s Government to extend vaccine passports for travellers entering France, requiring them to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test. It was one of the first bills put to parliament by the new minority Government, raising major doubts over the President’s ability to pass new laws. The Telegraph has more.
The vote saw the three main opposition parties – the far-Right National Rally (RN), the hard-Left La France Insoumise (LFI) and the Right-wing Republicains (LR) – unite to defeat the minority Government by 219 votes to 195.
The bill’s defeat was met with wild cheering and a standing ovation from opposition lawmakers, in footage that was widely circulated on social media.
The proposal marked the first big test of the Government’s ability to pass laws since losing control of the National Assembly last month. Mr. Macron failed to win a majority and could not form a coalition Government, severely curtailing his ability to push through domestic reform and meaning laws have to be passed on an ad hoc basis.
Francois Braun, the country’s Health Minister, lamented on Wednesday that an “alliance of circumstances” had led the National Assembly to reject part of a law intended to fight against the Covid pandemic.
Elisabeth Borne, the French Prime Minister, also condemned the blockage.
“The situation is serious. By joining together to vote against the measures to protect the French against Covid, LFI, LR and RN prevent any border control against the virus. After the disbelief on this vote, I will fight so that the spirit of responsibility wins in the Senate,” she wrote on Twitter.
Good to see some proper pushback against the illiberal health discrimination.
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Fantastic result and victory in what is looking more and more like a global revolution. This proves that the juggernaut can be stopped through good old national representative democracy. I mean, these MPs are people and must on some level realise that the world they are helping to usher in is not one they would want themselves or their children to live in. The demonic technocrats who seem to be driving this tyranny are old, rich and completely detached from reality. Let’s hope they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.
Yes
Such good news and as you say.
It evidences that everyone’s contribution, no matter how small! In questioning the power pushed narrative is filtering through to nudge an awakening to the truth.
The academic Desmot I think he is called who has written a book about the contemporary, totalitarian mass formation psychosis says the only way to beat this is to keep chipping away at the propaganda narrative.
He does indeed, in that fantastic accent that only Belgians have!
Fantastic result and victory in what is looking more and more like a global revolution. This proves that the juggernaut can be stopped through good old national representative democracy.
That was a lucky accident after two years of carnage and the only thing this proves is that the voting system of the French republic needs fixing. This wouldn’t have happened in Germany where all parties which will usually get into parliament save the AfD are pro-corona-everything and democratic votes get overturned per order of the government when AfD participiation made a difference because these are the right-affine, far right and right wing extremists – Democrat’s lingo for opposition – and everybody who even comes close to them automatically turns into one as well.
In reality, the AfD is falling over itself in the attempt to demonstrate how much establishment they are on all even remotely contested points. But it’s a relatively new party and one somewhat opposed to mass immigration, hence, the more established ones are still in the business of freezing them out of everything where state moneny is to be had.
“the juggernaut can be stopped through good old national representative democracy”
Sorry CG but I’m far from convinced on this, otherwise I agree with your position.
Agree. I’m overjoyed by this, but want to see further proof that people are pushing back against this totalitarian creep through representative democracy.
Our own country will be an interesting test very soon. Let’s see what kind of PM we get and what the person does when they get in.
I remain firmly convinced that representative democracy is shot to pieces in this country and has been for many years. My position is informed through close involvement in local politics although the parallels with national soon become evident.
In the USA corruption now appears to be the norm. In France the evidence for Macron’s presidential victory is deeply suspect and voting fraud is blatant. Which takes me back to the Tories 80 seat majority. In our Borough voting abuses are rife and I have first hand experience from that last General Election. So, no I am not convinced that representative democracy is alive and well.
My standard phrase is:
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
Secretly I agree with your assessment; was trying to be positive!
I regard this as much more positive than the two comments I wrote should suggest. However, it’s just a start and that it took two years for this misshapen behemoth to get moving while governments were free to inflict on their respective populations whatever they wanted is decidedly not good. Figuratively spoken, I don’t want be avenged after my death, I don’t want to be killed for no other purpose save that I’m a tiny part of a sacrifice that’s – unfortunately – neccessary to keep Susan Micha (et al) happy.
Not only that, but given your stated experience, I expect you are familiar with typical levels of voter turnout at local elections, including the tactic of making sure that there are just enough candidates for Parish Council elections, so that there isn’t one, in effect.
Not quite sure what you are getting at John but postal vote fraud is bloody endemic and eagerly supported by the gang in red.
Delighted to see the Macrons spineless party suffer defeat.
They better get used to it
My mother mentioned this to me this morning, having seen it on a news ticker. After reading the DS article I had a quick skim of Dutch newspapers, Le Monde and one Spanish newspaper and outside of Le Figaro (only found this through someone’s tweet) haven’t seen this mentioned. It may well be buried away in one of the papers I skimmed over, but it certainly is not somewhere to draw attention. The vote was last night, so there’s been plenty of time.
I also did a quick internet search (in Dutch, English and French) for ‘French parliament vaccine pass’ and only get hits for MSM sites of how it was approved, from months back. When I added the word ‘reject’, I only get hits from many months back when it was originally travelling through the French parliament. Haven’t read the DT article, but the headline is the same as the one in Le Figaro – it focuses on this being a middle finger to Ma-con, not on a majority of people’s representatives fighting back against unconstitutional, human rights abusing government over-reach.
Nowhere is the question raised as to why the French are still insisting on the nonsense pass – they claim it is to keep new variants out of France when a) we know that’s BS, it doesn’t work (hi Oz and NZ) and b) variants would simply develop in France and c) what’s the point, the vaxx that was going to save us does not work, so time to get on with life.
Western governments are engaged in an obscene abuse of power and egregious transgressions against the people they are supposed to represent. The Maldives/Singapore can’t hide all of them…
What’s French for lamp posts.
My French isn’t that great (better at reading than speaking it), but I’m sure pointing to lamp posts and universal hand gestures would work.
I joke, of course, heaven forbid that anyone should think I would wish any harm upon the politicians who have perpetrated crimes against humanity. Courts can do a fine job and, at some point in the future, undoubtedly will.
“Courts can do a fine job and, at some point in the future, undoubtedly will.”
Let’s hope so and the sooner the better.
“Allez La France allez La France allez!”
Nothing wrong of course with metaphorical lamp posts or guillotines in this case…
Madame Guillotine.
Madame la Guillotine.
And today, in France, is probably a good day to sweep it under the carpet for a while.
The situation is serious. By joining together to vote against the measures to protect the French against Covid, LFI, LR and RN prevent any border control against the virus. After the disbelief on this vote, I will fight so that the spirit of responsibility wins in the Senate
A telling quote. These MPs are the elected representatives of the majority of the French and apparently, they don’t want to be protected by vaccine passports. But that’s not how the supposedly French government sees it: When there’s clearly no democractic mandate for a certain policy, it must be enacted in some other way. This brings a poem of Bertold Brecht to mind he wrote on the occasion of the 17. June 1953 popular uprising in the GDR (ultimatively crushed by Russian tanks, the usual freedom anglosphere governments consider just appropriate for everyone living east of the Elbe). Improvised translation:
It was said that the populace
Had lost the confidence of the government &
Would need to work hard in order to regain it
Wouldn’t it be easier if the government
Dissolved it &
Elected a new one?
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It’s about time these Health Fascists (Trudeau and Adhern are two others) got some serious kicking.
The WEF must have been preoccupied with improving the life of the Sri Lankans to allow this to happen!