"Wanting to do everything, you end up doing badly",
annoyed Stéphane Le Foll, Tuesday, on the set of "Talk Le Figaro", about the management of the crisis by the government.
"The fact that everything has been concentrated at the Ministry of Health, it is the choice which was made by the President of the Republic I imagine, it is a mistake",
assures the mayor PS of Le Mans.
A major strategic error according to him, responsible for the delay of the vaccination campaign.
If the government is criticized for not sufficiently involving local elected officials, Stéphane Le Foll could not be clearer: they are
"not at all and neither is the prefect", he
protests.
"How could we prepare a vaccination campaign while being in front of the wall, on the eve of launching the vaccination, without preparation, without organization?"
insists the city councilor.
In this regard, he underlines the example speaking of
"fridges
"
, arrived just a few days before the start of vaccination.
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Certainly, the former spokesperson for the government of François Hollande denounces
“a failure in the strategic choice, and a lack of anticipation.
It would have been necessary for the Ministry of the Interior with the prefects, to be the project managers and very early on ”.
The former Minister of Agriculture still prefers not to fuel the controversy.
"The reason is linked to the fact that the Ministry of Health is self-promoting as a major manager of the entire crisis",
judges the socialist
.
I will carry a project for France in 2022, post-Covid.
Stephane Le Foll
If he confirms
that "there is indeed a responsibility of the ARS and the Ministry of Health in the health dimension",
on the logistical part
"we must let the prefects and local communities manage, that's what must be reorganized, ”
insists the former member of the Sarthe
.
From there,
"we must be able to initiate a process that will allow us to succeed in this vaccination".
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At Le Mans,
"we are not going to catch up, on the other hand we will make sure to accelerate and give the means to all health actors to vaccinate".
Moreover,
“we are working on two vaccination centers.
I do this with the desire to provide the city with the means and at the same time to work with the prefect ”,
specifies the city councilor.
If he ensures that city medicine must be associated, he especially underlines the major problem of medical deserts, which is the case of Sarthe.
“Involving doctors is absolutely necessary to have them with us.
Going only through them, it cannot work, ”
says the elected official.
"Rethinking the means of the State"
The big lesson from this crisis?
“We have to rethink the means of the State.
There is a new step to be taken on decentralization, ”
assures Le Foll.
He believes that local elected officials must take additional responsibilities in three main areas:
“Health, because if there is a responsibility there must be clearly indicated skills.
Energy, because local communities have a responsibility in the energy transition.
And finally mobility. ”
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Reflecting on the issues that will be at the heart of the presidential campaign at the end of the crisis, Stéphane Le Foll is working on writing a book to be released in the summer.
"I will carry a project for France in 2022, post-Covid," he
says.
Presidential ambitions?
"I will seek to assert what I think of the situation and the way in which we must give France a chance to change, without giving up its social model."
For him,
"there is a need to fix the issues, to redefine the main political lines".
If its objective is to participate in the debate and in projects
"giving back hope and combining all of these challenges",
Le Foll ensures that for 2022
"it is not enough to let go only on the gathering"
of the left.
Two trends stand out, that of Mélenchon and Montebourg, with a sovereignist tinge, and that of Anne Hidalgo, with whom he has convergences.
A convinced European, he concludes:
“Europe, we will need it.
We have to work on a European scale to revive the economy. ”