"The external pressure is immense, so it is absolutely untenable for the government,"
said Hakim el-Karoui on the set of "Talk Le Figaro" on Tuesday.
Critics are fired, the vaccination campaign in France is not taking off while other countries are widening the gap.
But the executive and the administrative machine have forgotten one thing, assures the former adviser to Jean-Pierre Raffarin,
"is that they do not live in isolation, alone in the world".
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Even if there are good reasons for wanting to go slowly
, "including to reassure the 'antivax', because we want to start with the nursing homes or because we want consent etc.",
the external pressure is such that the government will not be able to hold out for long.
According to the essayist,
"the comparison machine has been in operation from the start, we have seen it on the masks, the tests, the isolation, it continues on the vaccination".
For el-Karoui, "
it is a strategic error not to understand that we are in a connected world and that there is also a demand for a vaccine which is infinitely more important than the protests on the social networks of the conspirators. of all kinds ”.
Since the beginning of the crisis,
"the government has not seen the benchmark which is global", he
analyzes.
Quoting
"the incredible result of Israel"
and that of Great Britain,
"how can we be at 500 when they are at a million?", He
wonders, judging that the differential undoubtedly implies a change in vaccination strategy and an acceleration.
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If France is lagging behind, it is largely because of the cumbersome state apparatus and completely non-existent decentralization, says el-Karoui.
He evokes
"a sort of reptilian reflex of the State"
consisting in centralizing, even if it means overestimating its capacities.
Result,
“we do not know how to buy masks, trace, appeal to liberal professionals.
The machine seizes up, ”
explains the former adviser.
Recalling the reforming speech of the president on the functioning of the state upon his arrival,
"here, we are a bit in the political and operational crash test for Emmanuel Macron",
he said, pleading for more strategy and
"planning" .
