Even before a re-containment was taken by the executive, some elected officials demanded it more and more.
"Wasn't it better to have general confinement right away for two or three weeks?"
Now, at the slackest period of the year, to arrive in December and the Christmas holidays in a much better situation? ”
, questioned on Friday the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, skeptical of the effectiveness of the curfew.
Monday, the mayor of Nice being more and more urgent:
"If in eight days we do not go back below 150 (cases) per 100,000 inhabitants, I will have to take new very firm restrictive measures: I will put in implement economic containment during the week, and total for the weekend ”
, he announced.
Way to get the government to react quickly.
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If Christian Estrosi is the first elected to have asked the question of a re-containment to face the worsening health situation, he is far from alone.
Sunday evening, the LR president of the Grand Est region and emergency doctor Jean Rottner was just as categorical.
“I am certain that we are heading towards containment.
Different from the first.
But we will have to anticipate, listen, invent and help, ”
he explained after having gathered his executive to ask them
“ to be ready this week ”
.
Looking at the figures this weekend - additional positive cases, number of hospitalizations and intensive care admissions - Jean Rottner called for
"regionalized reconfinement adapted to local situations"
.
"The curfew is not sufficient to break the chains of contamination"
, judges the president of the region, convinced that
"the epidemic is before us"
.
“We have one or two trains behind,”
worries Jean Rottner.
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An observation shared by the President of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, received Tuesday evening with all the political parties by Jean Castex.
“No doubt we must arrive at more restrictive measures, I understand.
But that does not exempt the government from its responsibility.
If we are there, it is because there was no anticipation;
everything was done in a hurry, improvisation, approximation ”
, regrets the boss of LR.
“What has been done since March?
Why haven't we created intensive care beds?
Why are we not in a situation of having ephemeral hospitals? ”He
asks.
“Our deep conviction is that deconfinement has been failed.
Failed because the “trace, test, isolate” did not work and we still do not have an implementation of antigenic tests.
On the masks, the tests, the government lacked ambition, ”
adds Damien Abad, president of the LR group to the National Assembly.
"Block"
The executive knows it is expected at the turn.
Hence its desire to conduct a wide consultation upstream of announcements to ensure wider social acceptance of the turn of the screw.
“Even if it means wasting 24 hours, we must converge on a national union
,
”
explains a senior executive from La République en Marche.
In the government, we have seen the images of violent protests in Italy or Spain caused by the new restrictions in recent days.
“I don't believe in weaker social acceptance.
Now everyone knows someone who has suffered the virus.
People are becoming aware of the danger, ”
reassures a minister.
“Three weeks ago in Marseilles we were called tyrants.
There, fear rises, ”
abounds an LREM deputy.
Even before the presentation of the next restrictions, the organization of a parliamentary debate in the Assembly and the Senate on Thursday was announced, followed by a vote.
Nevertheless, the prospect of a new reconfinement frightens.
Valérie Pécresse
“dreads him”
and fears a
“dramatic social crisis”
.
"I would like, to the maximum of what sanitary conditions allow, that we maintain the activity",
she asked Sunday in
Le Parisien
, while explaining
"that today, the urgency, it is to make a block ”
.