Vaccination: Larcher pleads for "a partnership between the State and local communities"

In the columns of the Journal du dimanche, Gérard Larcher, President Les Républicains du Senate, pleads for a "partnership" between the State, local communities and health actors, to accelerate the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 .

He will be received on Monday at Matignon, with the group presidents.

Gérard Larcher, President LR of the Senate, said on Sunday that it was necessary to "initiate a partnership between the State, local communities and health actors" to accelerate the pace of vaccinations against the coronavirus, in an interview with the Journal du Sunday.

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"On vaccines, the figures are stubborn. When last Thursday, France had vaccinated 45,000 people, Germany had vaccinated 417,000 and Italy 307,000", remarks Gérard Larcher, who will be received Monday morning in Matignon, at his request , with the group presidents, to discuss the health crisis.

Gérard Larcher denounces an overly centralized policy

"I hope that the vaccination campaign is successful. We must start a partnership between the State, local authorities, health actors," he says.

"I do not understand that a Prime Minister who uses the word 'territory' 30 times in his speech of general policy is satisfied with centralized procedures, where everything is decided in the Defense Council, and with such a level of bureaucracy", he adds.

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He also considers "superfluous" the reform proposed by Emmanuel Macron concerning the inclusion in Article 1 of the Constitution that France "guarantees the preservation of biodiversity and the environment and the fight against climate change".

"The subject is too serious to 'do a blow'", while "the environmental charter introduced in 2004 by Jacques Chirac already has constitutional value", he says. 

He also claims to be "unfavorable" to the introduction of proportional representation in the legislative elections because this would further distance elected officials from their voters ".