More than anyone, we know the terrible and devastating effects of Covid-19.
It is we, accompanied by the funeral directors, who sealed with red wax seals the coffins of the first victims of the pandemic, buried in our municipal cemeteries.
It is we, once again, who have supported the families and relatives of the deceased patients.
It is with our municipal councils, our municipal agents, our associations, in our infrastructures that we massively organized the first screening and vaccination centers, the mask-making workshops.
Some of us have even supplied the health professionals.
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Since the start of the crisis, we have been on the front lines, without angelism or utopia.
We know the human and economic cost of this pandemic.
We can therefore testify here that if our country has been able to go through this unprecedented ordeal, it is only through unity and harmony between the population and its elected officials.
Yesterday, our municipal police officers could not control an identity in the street, today guards or volunteers of associations are forced to set up filter barriers at the entrance of a gymnasium or a shopping center.
Signatories of the platform
However, every day, in our communes of Haute-Savoie, whether large or small, rural or urban, we gradually see the division intervening. We see the couples we have united tear each other apart. We are witnessing the break-up of hundred-year-old associations. The embarrassed refusals to welcome customers by restaurateurs already on the verge of financial breakdown.
More generally, we see politics intruding where it had no place until then. The pro and anti, whether on the subject of the pass or the vaccine, suddenly find themselves in opposition, where they lived peacefully in harmony. The permanent checks are so many reminders, stab wounds, in this bone of contention. They are carried out by men and women who do not have the vocation and who themselves suffer from having to replace what, in the past, was the precursor of sovereign skills. Yesterday, our municipal police officers could not control an identity in the street, today guards or volunteers of associations are forced to set up filter barriers at the entrance of a gymnasium or a shopping center.
With this unprecedented societal implosion, we see our public services, already fragile, suffering the full brunt of the suspensions of agents. The already too few beds of our nursing homes are closing one after the other, following suspensions of caregivers. The same ones we all applauded yesterday evening. Leaving so many families in embarrassment and the most fragile among us, our seniors, in unacceptable situations. We also note the forced return of people with disabilities, who cannot stay in their specialized centers for lack of personnel. Pharmacies in our villages find themselves forced to reduce their working hours due to a lack of vaccinated staff. Our rescue centers, already in perpetual tension,must reorganize themselves and face the refusal of firefighters who have already volunteered to be vaccinated.
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More broadly, the past, implemented in a certain lack of consultation, is generating a growing incomprehension. This device, with variable geometry, creates a total imbroglio. A music school, if it is carried by a community is exempt, but if in the neighboring municipality it is in associative form, the pass applies. A group of professional musicians does not need the precious sesame to rehearse, while at the same time it is imposed on amateurs. The college children play basketball together without a pass, but in the evening, in the same gymnasium, with the same children and this time in the context of associations, the pass applies. It is compulsory on trains, but not subways, in museums, but not in schools, there are many examples ...Thus generating so many frustrations coupled with a deep feeling of injustice, of which we are in spite of ourselves the receptacles.
The health pass is at the origin of this unprecedented fracture in our society. We are privileged witnesses of it, when the legal framework does not oblige us to be the actors in spite of ourselves. This Covid-19 crisis is coupled with a governance crisis. The management of the pandemic, for lack of a clear and lasting vision, makes the actors in the field carry and apply the implementation of a vaccination obligation that does not speak its name. Without having to pass judgment here on this strategy that is beyond us, we see its limits every day.
The widespread implementation of the pass is a perfect demonstration of Julio Cortazar's quote, "
Cowardice tends to project on others the responsibility that one refuses
".
In this case, the mayors, the presidents of associations, the small bosses.
Signatories of the platform
The widespread implementation of the pass is a perfect demonstration of Julio Cortazar's quote, "
Cowardice tends to project on others the responsibility that one refuses
".
In this case, the mayors, the presidents of associations, the small bosses.
It is at the last level, the most fragile of the whole construction of the republican and societal system, that once again falls the lowest of the tasks.
The political word, for us elected from the territories of France, every day in contact with our population, still has a meaning and a compelling value. It is the foundation of what binds us to our fellow citizens, it is thanks to this sincerity that we are the preferred elected representatives of the French. In April, Emmanuel Macron said, speaking of the pass: "
It cannot be compulsory to access everyday places such as restaurants, theaters and cinemas, or to go to friends' houses.
".
Today, while the much vaunted collective immunity to vaccine (two thirds of the population) has been reached, it is time to make the system and the past statements of the President of the Republic consistent.
It is at this price that it will be possible to restore the confidence of the French, to recognize the monumental efforts made and which, today, are bearing fruit.
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After the pandemic will come the time for reconstruction, perhaps as many observers are saying, the time for recession, too.
It is only in unity, dialogue and serenity that the French can apprehend it.
It is time to trust our people, to recognize their freedom and responsibility.
It is time to extract from the already heavy daily life of our fellow citizens, the discord created by this device, to remove from the frail shoulders of those who have not asked for anything, a control that they do not have to assume at their level. .
For us, local elected officials, it is time to give up control of the health pass of the daily life of the French.
Signatories
Loïc HERVÉ, Senator of Haute-Savoie
Sylviane NOËL, Senator of Haute-Savoie
Cyril PELLEVAT, Senator of Haute-Savoie
Catherine PACORET, Regional Councilor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Antoine VALENTIN, Mayor of Saint-Jeoire (Author)
Sabrina ANCEL, Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Tholome
Boris AVOUAC, Mayor Saint-Laurent
Charlotte BOETTNER, Mayor of Villy-le-Pelloux
Jean-François BOSSON, Mayor of Saint-André-de-Boëge
Xavier BRAND, Mayor of Vovray-en-Bornes
Pierre CHAUTEMPS, Mayor of Burdignin
Sandrine DETURCHE, Mayor of Massongy
Gabriel DOUBLET, Mayor of Saint-Cergues
Bruno FOREL, Mayor of Fillinges
Barthélémy GONZALEZ, Mayor of Faucigny
Véronique LE CAUCHOIS, Mayor of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
Julian MARTINEZ, Mayor of Copponex
Christine MÉGEVAND, Mayor of Saint-Blaise
Joël MUGNIER, Mayor of Thusy
Luc PATOIS, Mayor of Marcellaz
Marie-Pierre PERNAT, Mayor of Reposoir
Pascal POCHAT-BARON, Mayor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Éric ROSAY, Mayor of Dingy-en-Vuache
Christophe SOGEON, Mayor of Ballaison
Gil THOMAS, Mayor of Cervens
Chantal VANNSON, Mayor of Marnaz
Laetitia VENNER, Mayor of Loisin
Anne-Cécile VIOLLAND, Mayor of Neuvecelle
Frank ACCARDO, Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jeoire-en Faucigny
Ronan AMSALEM, Deputy Mayor of Viry
Alexis ANTHOINE, Deputy Mayor of Rivière-Enverse
Claude ANTONIELLO, Deputy Mayor of Cruseilles
Maryse BOCHATON, Deputy Mayor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Christophe BONNAMOUR, Deputy Mayor of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
PascalBOUVET, Deputy Mayor of Fillinges
Jean-Pierre CHENEVAL, Deputy Mayor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Claude COLLOMB-PATTON, Deputy Mayor of Thônes
Loreleï DUPONT, Deputy Mayor of Viry
Julien DUSSAIX, Deputy Mayor of Scionzier
Clarisse FAURE, Deputy Mayor of Copponex
Isabelle FURGET, Deputy Mayor of Villy-le-Pelloux
Leon GAVILLET, Deputy Mayor of Marcellaz
Frédéric GERDIL, Deputy Mayor of Excenevex
Corinne GRILLET, Deputy Mayor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Liliane GRONDIN, Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jeoire
Emily GROPPI, Deputy Mayor of Thonon-les-Bains
Gianni GUERINI, Deputy Mayor of La Muraz
Regis LAMURE, Deputy Mayor of Monnetier-Mornex
Franz LEBAY, Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny
Élisabeth LEGER, Deputy Mayor of Villy-le-Pelloux
Claude MARIOTTI, Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Tholome
Philippe MERMIN, Deputy Mayor of Bons-en-Chablais
Annie NAVILLE, Deputy Mayor of Marcellaz
Caroline NIGEN, Deputy Mayor of Scionzier
Pascale PELLIER, Deputy Mayor of Vetraz-Monthoux
Antoine PEREZ RAMOS, Deputy Mayor of Veigy-Foncenex
Alain PERRET, Deputy Mayor of Marcellaz
Laetitia PERROQUIN, Deputy Mayor of La Balme-de-Sillingy
Carole PETIT, Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny
Laëtitia SECCO, Deputy Mayor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Michèle SECRET, Deputy Mayor of Viry
Fabien VASSALLI, Deputy Mayor of Loisin
Jocelyne VELAT, Deputy Mayor of Onnion
Gérald VIGNY, Deputy Mayor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
David ZAMOFING, Deputy Mayor of Archamps
François AMOUDRUZ, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny
Edith BASTARD, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny
Jacques BASTARD, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny
Astrid BAUD-ROCHE, Municipal Councilor of Thonon-les-Bains
Thierry BETHAZ, Municipal Councilor of La Roche-sur-Foron
Lisette BONNAZ, Municipal Councilor of Neuvecelle
Sophie BIOLLUZ, Municipal Councilor of Reignier-Esery
Ludovic BOURGEAUX, Municipal Councilor of Poisy
Patrick CARON, Municipal Councilor of Faucigny
Jean Pierre CAUQUOZ, Municipal Councilor of Allonzier-la-Caille
Pierrine CHIAVARO, Municipal Councilor of Marnaz
David CLERC, Municipal Councilor of La Muraz
Véronique COTTON, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny
Isabelle DE SCHEPPER, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny
Doris DEPLAIX, Municipal Councilor of Sevrier
Alexis DUBOULOZ, Municipal Councilor of Monnetier-Mornex
Beatrice DUCLOZ, Municipal Councilor of Giez
Aurélie DUMONT, Municipal Councilor of Marcellaz
Hélène DUVILLARD, Municipal Councilor of Burdignin
Stève FATTIER, Municipal Councilor of Machilly
Ludovic FAVRE, Municipal Councilor of Menthon-Saint-Bernard
Christophe GAILLARD, Municipal Councilor of Vovray-en-Bornes
Benjamin GERNAIS, Municipal Councilor of Viuz-en-sallaz
Laurent GEVAUX, Municipal Councilor of Bouchet-Mont-Charvin
Jessica GOLAZ, Municipal Councilor of La Balme-de-Sillingy
Marie-Jo GUIGNARD-DETRUCHE, Municipal Councilor of Thonon-les-Bains
Guillaume HAASE, Municipal Councilor of Fillinges
Josée HANNA, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
Cécilia HORCKMANS, Municipal Councilor of Allonzier-la-Caille
Fabrice LA ROSA, Municipal Councilor of Machilly
Jean-Charles LACROIX, Municipal Councilor of Draillant
Benoit LACROIX, Municipal Councilor of Draillant
Jean-Philippe LANSARD, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny
Louis LAPRAZ, Municipal Councilor of Chevrier
Magali LAVERRIERE, Municipal Councilor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Anthony LAVERRIERE, Municipal Councilor of Marcellaz
Patricia LIVESI, Municipal Councilor of Machilly
Jérôme MANIGUET, Municipal Councilor of Vovray-en-Bornes
Aurélie MARECHAL, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Laurent
Frederic MARMOUX, Municipal Councilor of La Chapelle Rambaud
Alain MATTANA, Municipal Councilor of Viry
Gérard MILESI, Municipal Councilor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Valérie MILLERET, Municipal Councilor of Marcellaz
Monique MOENNE, Municipal Councilor of Viuz-en-Sallaz
Jean-Baptiste MOLLIAT, Municipal Councilor of Mégevette
Odile MONTANT, Municipal Councilor of Vovray-en-Bornes
David MOREL, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Jean-de-Tholome
Chantal NANCHE, Municipal Councilor of Villy-le-Pelloux
Sandrine NICOUD, Municipal Councilor Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny
Charlotte PASSETEMPS, Municipal Councilor of La Balme-de-Sillingy
Bénédicte PINEL, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Sylvestre
Elodie POLLET, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Laurent
Emmanuel REY, Municipal Councilor of Bellevaux
Elise RIONDEL, Municipal Councilor of Nangy
Lena SAFONOVA, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
Patrice SUBLET, Municipal Councilor of Villy-le-Pelloux
Jean-Philippe THEVENOD, Municipal Councilor of Burdignin
Marie VEDRINE, Municipal Councilor of Saint-Laurent
Denis WOLF, Municipal Councilor of Vovray-en-Bornes
Mokrane YACEF, Municipal Councilor of Loisin
