On the eve of the intervention of the President of the Republic who will address this Monday, April 13 to the French in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, Olivier Faure has, according to our information, sent a letter - by email and by post - to the Head of State. While adopting a rather consensual tone, the boss of the Socialist Party leaves his reserve and does not hesitate to challenge Emmanuel Macron.
“Since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, my political family has chosen to be useful to the French. We have collectively decided to postpone the day after this crisis for the balance sheet and the lessons to be learned. The time is now for responsibility and more than ever for the truth to overcome this unprecedented catastrophe, ”writes Olivier Faure in the preamble. But the First Secretary of the PS continues on a more lively tone. “The confinement period will obviously extend. We could have gained membership if it had been announced at the start of the crisis, ”he wrote.
"Make all the transparency" on deconfinement
“A debate is looming. Monstrous, continues Olivier Faure. We would have to choose between lives and jobs, between our health and our economy. It is up to you to reassure the French that your arbitration will remain that of your first speech: protect whatever it costs. The socialist leader considers "imperative to make all transparency on the conditions of deconfinement" and the questions that arise from it on "the state of our mask orders […] and the calendar of their supplies". Same questions for the tests.
On hydroxychloroquine, which Professor Didier Raoult claims to have tested effectively against Covid-19, Olivier Faure asks the Head of State for the meaning to be given to his interview "with Professor Raoult whom you wished to make public while you had so far given the feeling of relying on clinical trials of the Discovery mission. "
In addition, according to Olivier Faure, “tracking” or digital tracing simply makes no sense. "We don't want to go from mass containment to everyone's surveillance - its theoretical effectiveness is based on massive screening," he writes.
"A state of social emergency"
Finally, the First Secretary of the PS again sounds the alarm on “the health crisis and the confinement which increase the inequalities and the social fractures of our country. Besides the state of health emergency, you must impose a state of social emergency. "And to detail:" In our country, 6th world economic power, a part of the population no longer feeds its fill. Students who benefited from meals at Crous can no longer go there; many children, for whom the only real daily meal was that of the canteen, no longer have access to it. Delivery drivers paid on the run see their income plummet and do not eat. "
"Your responsibility is to open the rights to unemployment insurance from two months of affiliation, to go back to the six months required since November and to definitively abolish your reform of unemployment insurance, an infernal factory at risk. It is time to decide, too, that the activity bonus for January and February will continue every month during confinement. "
Olivier Faure asks the Head of State to set up an exceptional aid of 300 euros per household and an increase of 100 euros per child for all households benefiting from social minima, housing aid and back-to-school allowance .
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"Regarding partial unemployment, I reiterate my request for compensation of employees at 100% up to 2.5 times the minimum wage," he insists.
Restore the ISF
Olivier Faure takes the opposite view from Medef and the government, for which the way out of the crisis is first and foremost by relaunching supply and businesses. “In a context of concern, we must begin to answer the question: who should pay? , insists the socialist. The commitment must be taken without delay: there is no question of making the first trenches and the precarious middle classes pay the bill for this crisis. The war effort must focus first on the wealthy: the ISF must be restored and the flat tax repealed. And if there is indeed a geo-tracking to organize, it is the one that targets fraud and tax evasion. "
Emmanuel Macron, who should receive this letter Sunday evening or Monday morning, will he take these proposals into account? Start of response this Monday evening.