Gauges in political meetings to prevent the spread of Covid-19?
La République en Marche and Les Républicains have both announced that they will comply, but some other presidential candidates, such as Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, do not want to hear it. speak.
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Invited this Monday on France Inter, the leader of France Insoumise reiterated his opposition to the establishment of such a measure for his gatherings, specifying on the other hand that FFP2 masks would be distributed to participants during his meetings.
"
An FFP2 mask reduces the risk of contagion and brings it below 1% (...).
We are making arrangements for people to be protected and I hope many will come.
We do not have an electoral campaign without a campaign,
”he pleaded, joining the Communist Party candidate, Fabien Roussel, who announced the same decision this weekend on TF1.
"Spirit of responsibility"
The sensitive issue of reconciliation between maintaining the fight against the epidemic and continuing the campaign has been at the heart of the debates for several weeks.
In the current state of things, the Constitution does not allow to set yellow or to impose health or vaccination pass during political meetings, which leaves candidates almost total freedom in the modalities of organizing their meetings. .
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The right-wing candidate, Valérie Pécresse, for example announced last Friday, on the sidelines of a trip to Nantes, that she would apply for her meetings the gauges imposed on all other gatherings. “
Valérie Pécresse will be President of the Republic in a few months. It is therefore already animated by this spirit of responsibility to better protect our fellow citizens
”, echoed Éric Ciotti a few days ago.
Ditto for the PS candidate Anne Hidalgo, who was already asking for the health pass in her previous meetings, and who told AFP last week that she will follow "
the recommendations of the government
" while waiting to see "
the evolution of the pandemic
”.
Environmentalists, finally, for their part "d
es smaller events, outdoors, rather in small gauges or in digital formats
", according to AFP.
