"Hello, do you want to be part of the citizens' council that will follow the vaccination campaign"?
This is the question that is asked this Monday to the French drawn by lot on behalf of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE).
This telephone canvassing should lead by next Sunday to a panel of 30 people (plus 5 substitutes) representative of French society (age, place of residence, sex, opinion on vaccines).
As of January 16, three weeks after the start of vaccination, this committee will be operational, in conjunction with the government's Vaccine.
Alain Fischer will come to the floor in front of the participants.
They will have to tell him "fears, resistance and ethical questions that vaccination can raise", as the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, indicated in his mission letter of December 18.
"We are saved, ironically on Twitter the LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard.
Let the executive finally get the job done, announce less and achieve more.
"" It is a nice tour de force to have succeeded in stalling this device in such a short time, welcomes Patrick Bernasconi, President of the EESC.
We are not in the same situation as the Citizen's Climate Convention.
It is not a question of formulating an opinion and recommendations but of monitoring as it goes.
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Nonetheless: this is the second time that the Head of State has bet on participatory democracy.
“It gives life to our democratic life.
It was a promise made after the yellow vests crisis, ”says one at the Elysee.
For the executive, this collective is a promise of transparency in the face of skepticism about vaccines.
This exercise is once again hosted by the ESEC, which has been responsible for citizen consultations since a law last December.
With the epidemic, however, most meetings will take place via videoconference.
"The more citizens will be heard, the better"
If it is innovative, this method is also politically risky, as the Citizens' Convention on the climate has shown.
Once their work returned to the government, some criticized a unraveling of their proposals.
So, how to avoid the gadget effect or yet another Théodule committee?
“The role of this committee is not clear to me.
I don't know how it will relate to what already exists, ”blows MP Cédric Villani, head of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technical Choices (OPECST).
The Haute Autorité de santé already has a "Council for the engagement of users", with anonymous French people.
Will this citizens' committee walk on the borders of Parliament?
No, assures the Parisian the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand.
“The more citizens, elected and unelected, are heard, involved and mobilized in this crucial phase, the better,” he believes.
The main thing is that the vaccination takes place in good order and that the skeptics gradually understand that the vaccine preserves, when the Covid, he can kill, handicap, cause suffering.
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The head of the LR group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, does not see it as a deviation either: "Unlike the Climate Convention, it is not a competing structure," he comments.
Before scratching Emmanuel Macron: “The official word is so devalued that it can perhaps help!
But nothing is less certain.
At the moment, those who wish to be vaccinated cannot.
Lack of vaccines!
"The citizens drawn by lot will have a highly flammable material to deal with ...
