Fri Oct 29, 2021 – 4:00 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The French executive is facing the beginnings of a rebellion on the part of the Senate that refused on Thursday to vote for a bill giving the government a free hand with the sanitary pass and other COVID restrictions until July 31, 2022.
In fact, a majority of senators (158 against 106, out of a total of 348) adopted a modified version of the very extreme bill approved by the National Assembly last week, rejecting a large number of measures the government is seeking to have at its fingertips without parliamentary control in the name of an extended “sanitary state of emergency.”
Given the narrow margin by which the law was adopted by the lower chamber last week (135 votes for, 125 against and several hundred absentees among the 577 members of the “Chamber of deputies”), the Senate’s resistance, however lukewarm, is a sign that Emmanuel Macron’s government’s prolonged frontal attack on public liberties is beginning to trigger reactions, even on the part of public institutions that have shown themselves so favorable to them since the “pandemic” began at the beginning of 2020.
Heated debates took
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