Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous on Europe 1, Bruno Retailleau, president of the group Les Républicains au Sénat, returned to the management of the health and economic crisis linked to the coronavirus in France. Asked about a potential commission of inquiry, he announced that it will be set up in the Senate at least June, and will cover "the entire chronology of the crisis"

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Will there be a commission of inquiry into the management by the state of protective masks, as requested by Senator de Gironde and vice-president of the Law Commission, Nathalie Delattre? No, answers Bruno Retailleau at the microphone of Europe 1 this morning. The president of the group Les Républicains at the Palais du Luxembourg announces that a "much more demanding and much larger" commission of inquiry will be "created and set up in June".

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"We have just decided in conference of presidents of the Senate the principle of a commission of inquiry which will cover the entire chronology of the coronavirus crisis from the first revelations of China until the end of the crisis ", said Bruno Retailleau on Europe 1. 

Senator LR says that the purpose of this process is not to "sue the state". "Our objective is to see what has worked and what has not worked to learn from it. And to ensure that France is better prepared tomorrow," he explains. 

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