Guest of the morning of Europe 1, Camille Pascal, writer and adviser to Jean Castex, returned to the performance of the Prime Minister in the program "Vous ont la parole" on France 2. According to him, the former mayor of Trabes was right to tell the truth when he said he did not download StopCovid.
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Thursday evening, Jean Castex embarrassed his Secretary of State for Digital Cédric O and his Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
While the government, for several months, has been trying desperately to convince the French to download the StopCovid tracking application to fight against the spread of the coronavirus in France, the Prime Minister said on the France 2 set, in front of millions of viewers , that he had not done it himself.
Should he never have said that?
"On the contrary, it was necessary to tell the truth", answers Camille Pascal, one of his advisers, at the microphone of Europe 1.
"The French say to themselves 'him, he doesn't lie to us'"
"The Prime Minister introduced himself to the French. I think there was one thing above everything to do: tell the truth", justifies the one who was also an adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy during his last year in office at the Elysee.
"I am convinced that when certain observers who have the political sense of a pickaxe say 'what a mistake', in reality the French say to themselves 'him, he is not lying to us, even if it is not to his advantage'" .
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"It means that everything is not prepared in a show like that and that it has kept a kind of spontaneity which is quite rarely widespread in the political landscape", rejoices Camille Pascal, who is therefore convinced that this quack will benefit to the Prime Minister.
Moreover, Camille Pascal says it: "personally, I did not download StopCovid either".