Atmosphere in Macronie.
Faced with France's deficit, Bruno Le Maire has been increasing his savings announcements since last month.
In addition to the 10 billion budget cuts announced in mid-February, the boss of Bercy expressed in an interview with Le
Monde
his desire to cut back on social spending.
A statement which had the gift of seriously irritating Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity.
This Friday, it is the turn of another member of the majority to oppose Bercy and de facto, Catherine Vautrin.
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At the microphone of RTL, it was live from the University Hospital of Reims (Marne) that Arnaud Robinet, mayor of the city and president of the French Hospital Federation, alerted to the government's demands:
“The message that I want to convey to the government and in particular to the Minister of Health, is to say: be careful, the public hospital has already made a huge effort"
, before opposing the 600 million euros in budget cuts:
"2024 , the government is asking the public hospital for 600 million euros in savings, we are facing inflation, it is not possible, ultimately it is the patient who will suffer the consequences.
Continuing his momentum, the one who is also mayor (Horizons) of the city of coronations expressed his disagreement
“for once”
with Catherine Vautrin.
Guest of the
Grand Jury RTL, Le Figaro, Paris Première,
the minister declared
: “Health is not free”.
The philippist asked on the contrary,
"a revaluation of the support of the State towards the public health system, but not only financial", before pleading
for "a
better organization, a better reorientation and a programming law to have a vision, visibility in the medium and long term
.
Public criticism far from being trivial as the two elected officials are politically close.
Both from the ranks of the Republicans (LR) and originally from Reims, it was as a pair that they shifted the city to the right in 2014. Before the appointment of Catherine Vautrin to the government, they shared for seven years, the town hall and the metropolis.
To further complicate this imbroglio, the Minister for Health is none other than Frédéric Valletoux, Arnaud Robinet's predecessor at the head of the French Hospital Federation and also a member of Édouard Philippe's party.