The former health minister was present at the assembly on Thursday evening to consider a text by the LFI on the reintegration of unvaccinated nurses. All in a white-hot arena.
For Olivier Véran, “Parliament was unprecedented in 12 years”. A reference to the electrode debates in the plenary hall on Thursday evening about the reintegration of unvaccinated nurses. This measure was the subject of a bill (PPL) tabled by La France insoumise (LFI) during his parliamentary niche, a session where he has control of the agenda.
The atmosphere was very tense, between numerous insults and interruptions in the session. The Macronists played parliamentary obstruction and introduced many subamendments to save time, although the presidential camp was in the minority on this text compared to the opposition.
Symbol of the tension that reigns on the benches of the hemicycle, the MP from Guadeloupe, Olivier Serva (LIOT), communicated a “they will close it” to one of his colleagues.
In this red-hot arena, Olivier Véran arrived at the end of the evening with François Braun, his successor at the helm of the Ministry of Health.
“I come fresh, brand new, very happy to see you again, so I will remain calm and impassive,” the government spokesman said at first.
Before you add, amid boos from part of the Chamber, “Thank you for the choruses.”
“I have time”
The hustle and bustle on the rebellious benches continues, Olivier Véran tackles: “We are not insoumise in the political office of La France, we are in Parliament, so you have to listen, it’s called democracy and I darlings”. Enough to reignite the fervor as the opposition too accuses the government of disrespecting democracy by preventing the PPL’s scrutiny from being completed despite its willingness to vote for it.
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“I have time and I’m calm,” laughs Olivier Véran.
A little later he was “surprised” by the “level of tension” that he had “never experienced in twelve years of parliament”. Then, far from calming the enthusiasm, he chided the opposition: “I wish, ladies and gentlemen, opposition MPs, that you had the same energy, enthusiasm and will to do well if it were necessary to vote on measures that are difficult for the French, such as curfews, curfews or why not, ‘whatever the cost'”.
Olivier Véran was Minister of Health at the time. He regularly clashed with the National Assembly to defend government measures to combat the Covid-19 epidemic. Often in an electrifying atmosphere. And with momentum in November 2020 in a vote on the health emergency. The Isérois had recounted his visit to a hospital in Corbeil-Essonnes before losing his temper in the face of the frenzy of the opposition.
“That’s the reality, ladies and gentlemen, if you don’t want to hear this, get out of here. It’s here, the reality of our hospitals!” he declared.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
VIDEO – ‘They will shut it down!’: A MP gets swept up in the middle of a debate on the reinsertion of unvaccinated carers in the assembly