Communist deputies decided on Tuesday to create a commission of inquiry into "the dysfunctions in the health management of the coronavirus crisis". They say they fear that the ongoing parliamentary information mission is a “smoke-and-blood” operation.
The motion for a resolution on a commission of inquiry will be "tabled today" on Tuesday, said leader of the elected communists André Chassaigne during a press conference by videoconference. And the group intends to use its "drawing rights" (a commission of inquiry per group and per session), "presumably" at the next conference of presidents next week, he said.
No "controversial approach"
The fact-finding mission chaired by Richard Ferrand (LREM), which launched its work last week, is intended to be transformed into a commission of inquiry to "return to normal", with a LR deputy as general rapporteur. But, explained André Chassaigne, "to the extent that today, we have no commission of inquiry but a simple fact-finding mission, I do not see the arguments that could be put forward for there to be rejection of our commission of inquiry ”.
"If this commission of inquiry is tabled, it is because we do not exclude that the risk is great that the fact-finding mission is a smoking mission," added Sébastien Jumel, spokesperson for PCF deputies. . He invoked "the need to see clearly on the responsibilities" linked to dysfunctions and not "a polemical approach".
"Late or even contradictory" decisions
Also spokesperson, Pierre Dharréville admitted that "the risk exists" of a refusal by the majority to create such a commission. "There is a precedent," he observed, with in particular the case of the socialists, who wanted to use their drawing rights to look into the impact study accompanying the pension reform, but had faced with rejection in early March.
In the explanatory memorandum to their motion for a resolution, the communist elected representatives stress in particular that "the current situation highlights the unpreparedness of the public authorities, which have obviously allowed themselves to be overtaken by events".
The main purpose of the commission of inquiry will be to establish "the reasons which justified decisions which appear late or even contradictory, in particular with regard to containment", the reason why the country "was not able to provide sufficient masks ”or the reasons for the absence of“ mass screening of the population ”.
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