The time when France ceremoniously awaited the advice of the Scientific Council to know what sanitary sauce the country was going to be eaten seems distant.
"This summer, we are going to put ourselves on the back burner",
announced on Europe 1 the president of the body, Jean-François Delfraissy.
The Scientific Council meets on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 June for a seminar to discuss the future of the advisory body which, according to the law relating to the management of a health crisis, expires on September 30.
Applied to the letter at the start of the epidemic, the opinions of the body created to advise the executive are less and less audible as the epidemic decreases.
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Opinions less and less listened to
Relations between the government and the council had deteriorated for several months, the advisory body being accused of being too alarmist. So much so that Emmanuel Macron canceled an interview scheduled at the Elysee Palace with Jean-François Delfraissy at the end of April, just before publicly announcing the deconfinement schedule.
“As soon as the Scientific Council has not been consulted for this coming deconfinement, it loses its raison d'être. The members seem to be withdrawing ”
, affirmed to
Figaro
Mahmoud Zureik, professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and co-founder of the Collective“ On the side of science ”.
At the start of the school year, it will be necessary to manage a possible resumption of the epidemic and monitor the progression of its variants, but Jean-François Delfraissy plans to pass his turn. "
It is the politician who will decide
, he told Europe 1.
I do not want to enter the presidential campaign period
."