Paris (AFP)

The rebellious France group in the National Assembly presented its “alternative plan to confinement” on Tuesday, “the most archaic solution” and generating “psychological violence”, while Emmanuel Macron must announce adjustments in the evening.

"We cannot imagine a society which lives between confinement and deconfinement and which puts itself in prison on its own at regular intervals", explained the president of the group Jean-Luc Mélenchon during a press conference at the Palais Bourbon.

The 2022 presidential candidate criticized this "archaic solution" and the executive: "His vision of the human being is extremely limited, a homo economicus who runs to work and goes back to bed without making a fuss. human beings are first of all beings of social bond, of culture, of rites ".

According to Mr. Mélenchon, "confinement is psychological violence that everyone must exercise against themselves by depriving themselves of everything".

Apart from the triptych "test, trace and isolate" that LFI wants to strengthen to fight against the epidemic, its plan proposes the concept of "bearings".

Thus at school, "a real cluster despite the denial of the minister", LFI proposes to organize classes in half-groups to allow "good distance", said deputy Sabine Rubin.

The half-group that is not with the teacher would be in supervised study or supported by animators or educational assistants.

To "relieve" public transport, LFI proposes to organize a staggering per half hour of the start of work in each company, said deputy Adrien Quatennens.

LFI is in favor of reopening small businesses, one of the measures that could be announced by the head of state on Tuesday evening.

But she wants to match it with an "exceptional tax contribution to the crisis" for large groups, whose revenues would be "directed to a national fund for the support of traders facing their debts," said Clémentine Autain.

On the cultural side, LFI recommends reopening bookstores, theaters and extending aid "to technicians, artists, screenwriters" and to creators in general who, according to MP Michel Larive, do not always receive it.

Finally to fight against the coronavirus, "the vaccine cannot be the only remedy because the characteristic of a virus is to mutate", underlined Mr. Mélenchon.

He again formulated his proposal for a "public drug center" financing research and relocating health production in France.

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