France: Senate rejects bill on compulsory vaccination


 The covid-19 vaccine will not be added to the list of mandatory vaccines. Senators did not approve the bill presented by the Socialists on October 13. Their group found itself isolated. The government promises to continue with the pedagogical approach.

New setback for supporters of a mandatory vaccination against covid-19 in general population, just like the 11 vaccinations imposed on children born from 2018. The Senate did not approve the bill "introducing mandatory vaccination against SARS-CoV-2". The text, submitted by members of the Socialist group at the end of August, was rejected on October 13 in public session by 262 votes to 64. This parliamentary initiative will therefore go no further.


Only the Socialist group, which presented the text, voted in favor, joined only by three colleagues from the center and the right. The other groups preferred to reject it. Fourteen senators, of various tendencies, chose to abstain. The government, through Adrien Taquet, also expressed its opposition. "We prefer to convince rather than coerce," insisted the Secretary of State for Children and Families.(…)


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