Radio silence in the entourage of Nicolas Sarkozy, hardly any more around Emmanuel Macron where one says only "to have discovered" the news.
While this Thursday evening, questioned in the middle of a press conference, Olivier Véran took refuge behind "medical confidentiality" so as not to have to comment.
The least we can say is that opacity remained in order after the Express site revealed the former President of the Republic's vaccination against Covid 19.
Information confirmed from a military source with France Info, which Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet has not denied.
In this case, a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, injected last January at the Percy military hospital, in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine).
While Nicolas Sarkozy is 66 years old, and therefore does not a priori fall into the category of priority people - that is to say over 75 years old - except in the case where he would have presented a risk pathology .
Suddenly, it did not take more to witness a flood of criticism on social networks.
Leaving for the most part to hear, without proof, that the former head of state would have benefited from a privilege.
When the controversy over these French people who circumvent the rules to get vaccinated swells, the news goes badly.
Especially since, and this is not the least of the paradoxes, the latter regularly curls the executive in private on its management of the crisis, particularly the vaccination campaign.
" Really, I do not understand.
All our neighbors are doing better, we are at the back of the pack and no one understands anything, ”he was recently annoyed in front of one of his visitors, who was also unaware of his recent vaccination.
"We must stop giving in to demagoguery in egalitarianism"
"But who can say that he was vaccinated without a medical prescription?"
No one.
So the best is still to say nothing.
Especially when you don't know, ”annoys a supporter of the retired rue de Miromesnil.
When others believe that this is not shocking: “There is only in France to see this kind of unnecessary controversy.
What does that change for a former President of the Republic to be vaccinated a little before the others?
And who is it up to?
», Asks a minister.
This Thursday, in the political class, no voice was raised to take a position on the subject.
President of the MoDem group in the National Assembly - a movement chaired by François Bayrou, longtime political enemy of Sarkozy -, the deputy Patrick Mignola is also on a line of leniency: "I know all the difficulty that was that of President Macron and his ministers to say that they want to be treated like the others.
But frankly, we can also tell the truth: a President of the Republic, a Prime Minister, a President of the Assembly, a former Head of State, are not personalities like the others.
We must stop giving in to demagoguery in egalitarianism ”, annoys the deputy of Savoy.
Because beyond that, the subject obviously revives the question of vaccination within the political class.
Sensitive subject in high places, where we fear to pass to the public for privileged.
At this stage, only Olivier Véran received an injection in early February.
But he was allowed to do so as a health professional.
For a while, Jean Castex had also considered doing it, “to set an example”.
Before reversing.
So Mignola opens the debate: “I will not be shocked that Mélenchon, Le Pen, or even Jadot are also vaccinated.
What would the world say if one and a half years before the presidential election, one of the competitors died of Covid?
It seems that France did not even know how to protect those who rule it or those who could rule it.
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