David Lisnard, LR mayor of Cannes, has decided to open vaccination to all its citizens over 50 years old.

An initiative that is not to the taste of the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.

But the councilor believes that he is within his rights and has respected the rules.

He defends himself at the microphone of Europe 1. 

He persists and signs.

The LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, angered the Minister of Health by opening the vaccination against Covid-19 to all his citizens aged 50 and over, whether they have health problems or not.

A decision in contradiction with the directive of avenue de Ségur, which did not fail to react.

Olivier Véran thus called the city councilor to order on Thursday during a trip to Clermont-Ferrand.

"Very surprised" by this attack, David Lisnard judges at the microphone of Europe 1 that he is in his right and that he is only respecting the instructions of Emmanuel Macron: "Vaccinate morning, noon and evening."

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"We can't waste any more time"

"On the basis of the [4,000] doses allocated by the State, we can move on to the vaccination of people over 50," insists David Lisnard.

"It would still be incongruous for the Minister of Health to judge the President of the Republic, who told us to go quickly and to vaccinate morning, noon and evening. This is also what we are doing in Cannes."

Wanting to evacuate the controversy, the city councilor says that "we need to be focused" on vaccination and that it would be more judicious to encourage him than to blame him for his decision.

"We can no longer waste time, France has lost too much," he says again. 

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An "extremely failing" Ministry of Health

And to continue in the same tone: "all the same, those who give us sometimes contradictory injunctions all day long, or even give us moral lessons, must show practicality."

An attack on the Ministry of Health, which David Lisnard considers to be "extremely lacking" in the vaccination file. 

For the councilor, the State has an interest in relying on the "multitude of town halls which work particularly well", but also on "the Ministries of Defense and the Interior for the logistics" of the vaccination campaign.

He also recalls that if all the over 75 years of Cannes who so wished received at least one dose of vaccine, "it is because the Cannes vaccinodromes have been operational since January 4, when the government claimed that they did not. were not useful, and that we mobilize a large number of municipal staff instead of the State ".