"National disunity would be the worst thing" in the face of the coronavirus epidemic, estimates Sunday March 29 the President LR of the Senate Gérard Larcher, while the socialist Olivier Faure underlines not wanting to "weaken the government".
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"The priority is to be together, national disunity would be the worst thing," says Gérard Larcher in an interview with Parisien , while the toll of the victims of the epidemic is increasing day by day. “Faced with this health crisis, I stand by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister. This is not the time for controversy. It is in action " even if " the time will come to answer the questions that are legitimately asked today, "he adds.
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The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, meanwhile, wished, on France Inter, not "to weaken the government" , to be "united and at the same time useful" . It is necessary "not to seek unnecessary controversies, but also to alert whenever it is useful" .
The President of the Senate returns to the controversial use of chloroquine to treat patients with Covid-19, he says he shares "the decision of the Minister of Health to leave the responsibility to hospital doctors to use them and to respond on a case-by-case basis, pending the results of the studies ” .
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