The socialist mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo believes that the government could have "reacted earlier" by deciding to reconfine the capital to face the Covid-19 epidemic, in an interview published Sunday on the website of the newspaper
Sud Ouest
.
“In light of the pressure on the hospital, it was an expected decision. I'm not trying to argue but we could have reacted earlier and it was not done, ”
she said, calling again for
“ massive vaccination ”.
While this time around, businesses such as bookstores, hairdressers or florists can remain open, she felt that “we could have gone further: museums, cinemas and theaters could reopen with very framed gauges. .
We must move forward on this ground, ”she said.
Asked by the Aquitaine newspaper about the Parisians who came to the region to escape confinement, Anne Hidalgo explained that
“Paris is a very dense city.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a large apartment.
I am not going to judge those who are going to join their families.
Parisians are also provincials.
Let's stop opposing people or stigmatizing them ”.
"Create a political offer"
This possible presidential candidate, who has just launched her reflection platform "Ideas in common" in "the perspective of 2022", also affirmed that she wanted to "create a political offer" and could not bring herself to "An absence of perspective where the only choice ultimately becomes that of voting against the far right".
The goal of "Ideas in common" is "to arrive, after the summer, with proposals through which many of us can come together," she said.
Asked about the dispersion of the left, she considered that
“things are built by moving.
If we don't meet, nothing will be possible.
It's up to everyone to take the steps towards what brings us together.
We must therefore try and find ourselves ”
.
Anne Hidalgo is expected Monday and Tuesday in Bordeaux for a conference of the International Association of French-speaking Mayors, which will be essentially virtual due to the pandemic.