Xavier Bertrand, December 4, 2020, during a speech in Crespin.

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The ex-LR president of the Hauts-de-France region Xavier Bertrand, possible right-wing candidate for the 2022 presidential election, on Thursday called on the government for "transparency" on vaccination, while calling for "blocking" this subject.

"The scientific elements must be made public" and we must "play the card of truth and transparency", affirmed on France5 Xavier Bertrand, according to whom "if it is necessary, it is necessary to redefine".

"Let us unite, each in his place, each with his responsibilities"

But "if we want to succeed in the vaccination which is the way out of the crisis, we really need to unite, each in his place, each with his responsibilities, that is called the general interest", he said. added.

Monday already on RTL, Xavier Bertrand had deemed it necessary "that we unite together, the government and elected officials" and "that we stop looking at each other doggedly."

"We will only succeed in this acceleration of vaccination if we all work together" and "we can not give the feeling that everyone is on their side, in their lane", he added.

At the beginning of January, however, the president of Hauts-de-France had estimated that Emmanuel Macron had committed "an extremely serious fault" with his vaccination strategy which "leads us inevitably to failure".

"The problem is not Macron-Bertrand today"

Recalling that he had warned on September 22 that we had "no right to miss" on vaccination, Xavier Bertrand said Thursday that "the government took it into account."

"I fully accept what I said, and if I have one regret it is not to have said it even louder and more firmly on September 22," he added.

Xavier Bertrand's call to “join forces” did not go unnoticed because his name regularly comes up to represent the right in the presidential election of 2022. “The problem is not Macron-Bertrand today, that we will come back to. I will meet you later, ”assured the president of the Haut-de-France region.

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