François Bayrou and Valérie Pécresse stressed on Sunday the essential role of local authorities in obtaining and distributing masks to fight against the coronavirus. Conversely, they denounce the action of the State and its lack of reaction.

One supports the presidential majority, the other does not, however François Bayrou (Modem) and Valérie Pécresse (Libres!, Ex-LR) agree that the State has not properly managed the masks . Sunday, the boss of the centrist movement and the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse praised the role of communities in obtaining and distributing masks to fight against the coronavirus epidemic, unlike the state.

François Bayrou regrets "excessive centralization"

"If we had waited for the state to have masks, we could have waited a long time, and even today, we would not have had them," said François Bayrou, on BFMTV. According to him, "the higher authorities were forced to go back to local action". 

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The mayor of Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and ex-Minister of Justice underlined "the need to trust the ground, it is valid for local communities, valid for companies, valid for doctors". He also regretted that "French society suffers from excessive centralization".

Valérie Pécresse denounces a "relaxation in the use of masks"

Valérie Pécresse returned to the statements of Emmanuel Macron who said on May 18 in an interview with BFMTV that there had never been a break in masks. According to her, "this is not the reality. And that is why the region bought 2 million of which the first were intended for nursing staff when it is not our job," he said. she declared on France 3.

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The president of the Île-de-France region was also worried about "laxity in the use of masks when it is compulsory in transport" in her region, still classified red by epidemiologists. The issue of protective masks is one of the major subjects of controversy during the coronavirus crisis, with opposition accusing the state of having in particular "lied" about their usefulness to conceal the shortage.