Paris (AFP)
Relentlessly pounding the executive for the slowness of the Covid-19 vaccination, the opposition also criticizes the draw of a group of citizens responsible for monitoring the campaign, perceived as a "delusional gadget" to "make believe let's do some democracy ”.
The president (LR) of the Grand Est region, Jean Rottner, spoke Monday of a "state scandal", criticizing a "form of unpreparedness" and "irresponsibility" of the government.
A week after the start of the vaccine campaign, the government tried to regain control this weekend by announcing the vaccination for some caregivers and an acceleration of the arrival of doses each week.
"A hundred hospitals will offer vaccination to caregivers" by Wednesday, assured Monday the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, according to whom "today we will have carried out several thousand vaccinations in all the country".
But the controversy is swelling, while tens of thousands of people have already been vaccinated in Germany and nearly a million in the United Kingdom.
"Our country is humiliated," said LR deputy from Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, asking Mr. Véran "to act or to leave".
For the vice-president of the National Gathering Jordan Bardella, France "is the laughing stock of the world".
The ecologist MEP Yannick Jadot blasted him the "fiasco" of the vaccine strategy but also of the French pharmaceutical industry, whose leader Sanofi should not have developed a vaccine before the end of 2021. And evokes "the noise that short in Brussels that France has played Sanofi to the maximum "against the vaccine already available from Pfizer and BioNTech.
"Let us mobilize our army, those who know how to manage logistics to transport" vaccines, launched number 3 of LR Aurélien Pradié.
On the left, the president of the PS group in the Assembly Valérie Rabault, wishing to know "how many doses have been ordered", considers that "the government does not tell us everything".
"The strategy of the + President-who-decides-everything + turns into a fiasco!"
tweeted the national secretary of the PCF, while Pierre Jouvet, spokesman for the PS, wrote to Jean Castex to ask "to authorize the opening of + vaccinodromes +, as in Germany".
Against the tide, the LR president of the regions of France Renaud Muselier told him his "total confidence" in the Prime Minister to "accelerate and succeed" the vaccination campaign.
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Some also call on the government to rely on local communities for the logistical aspect.
It is necessary "that the mayors are associated with the organization of the vaccination campaign", estimated Monday the Association of the mayors of France, while the president (ex-LR) of the Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse reiterated its proposal for "logistical support to the State in all regional buildings".
To these criticisms are now added those against a group of 35 citizens whose draw was to start on Monday and who will be responsible for monitoring the vaccination campaign.
"Foutage de gueule" which aims to "make believe that we are doing a little democracy", according to Yannick Jadot.
"It is difficult to understand what the role of the council of 35 will be when everything is decided by an opaque defense council," said LFI MEP Manon Aubry, while in the center, the president of the UDI Jean- Christophe Lagarde denounced a "totally delusional and undemocratic gadget".
For the president of RN Marine Le Pen, "the executive gives up deciding, acting, therefore governing": "representative democracy does not mean discarding yourself as soon as you no longer control anything, it is assume its role of representative of the people ".
"It's humiliating for the national representation," said Ciotti.
The boss of LR deputies Damien Abad called for "a new parliamentary debate" on vaccination policy, "with a vote, this time".
For the LR vice-president of the National Assembly Annie Genevard, "we need less of a Théodule committee, even if it is composed of citizens, than of the rapid and efficient organization of the vaccination of all those who wish it" .
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