The president of the Hauts-de-France region Xavier Bertrand (ex-LR) estimated that Emmanuel Macron had committed
"an extremely serious fault"
with his vaccination strategy which
"leads us inevitably to failure"
, in an interview with
Parisien
published Monday evening.
"He will have to explain it to the French,"
said the possible right-wing candidate for the 2022 presidential election.
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Because
"a failure means that we, the French, will not be protected against the Covid, with an economic and social life which does not resume its rights and an unbearable downgrading",
he added.
Believing that vaccination should be
"the national priority"
with
"a general public promotion campaign"
, Xavier Bertrand called on the executive to
"be fully transparent"
on the number of vaccines available.
"We cannot relive the same official lie as on the masks, this fiasco where the doctrine was guided by the shortage"
, he affirmed.
To accelerate the pace, he mentioned
"oral consent, and not written"
to vaccination, or the idea of entrusting logistics to
"private logisticians who know how to do military health service".
But
"all this can only work with deep decentralization and by working with local elected officials"
, he added, saying himself ready to open vaccination centers
"in our public spaces or high schools" .
It is also necessary
"of course" to
buy doses in addition to those ordered by Europe, he estimated, even if it means paying more for the vaccine:
"human health is priceless,"
said Xavier. Bertrand, who would like
"to be sure that we have not cut corners on prices, which would explain why we are not given priority for deliveries".
Also pleading to
“completely
change
the approach”,
President LR of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez called for
“all of us to commit to vaccination, with the political will of all elected officials, from the president to the mayor of the smallest municipality ”.
Criticizing the
"ultracentralized piloting"
of the vaccine strategy, he praised to Le
Figaro
"the German model of collaboration between the State and the regions".
"The regions and local communities must be entrusted with the organization of the logistical arrangements for the vaccination campaign in a decentralized manner"
, insisted Laurent Wauquiez, whose name is also sometimes mentioned for 2022.
