Paris re-defined at weekends like Nice and Dunkirk? Anne Hidalgo (PS) says no. She explained it very clearly to the police chief on Monday. According to the mayor of Paris, this is a “difficult, hard, even inhuman” proposal.
Instead, the boss of the capital is proposing several measures to limit the spread of the virus, particularly in nurseries, schools and high schools: open the windows of the rooms, organize outdoor classes in parks and gardens, open places ( gymnasiums, museums, theaters, houses of associations …) to allow graduates and students to revise in peace.
The mayor of Paris also wants the Covisan device which allows the isolation of people tested positive for Covid to be strengthened and asks the State to intensify screening campaigns in schools. During her speech, the undeclared candidate for the 2022 presidential election did not fail to criticize the government, in particular on the slowness of the vaccination campaign. “At the end of March, at the current rate, only a quarter of Parisians over 75 will have received two doses of vaccine,” she worries.
Backpedaling on reconfinement
Proposals and criticisms to make people forget the controversy born at the end of last week on a possible reconfinement of Paris? Emmanuel Grégoire (PS), Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy, had raised the hypothesis of a strict three-week reconfinement with the objective of reopening all places during the deconfinement. Proposal which immediately raised a wind of criticism from the right-wing district mayors who denounced the lack of consultation while Prime Minister Jean Castex described this proposal as “nonsense”.
Of which act. While this Monday morning, the first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire apologized by videoconference to the mayors of the districts for his “hasty declaration”, Anne Hidalgo, for her part denounced a “fake news”. “We have not proposed a strict three-week lockdown. In the public debate that is opening up, this question is on the table and it should not be dismissed, it is not a taboo subject and I think it would be wrong to consider that there are assumptions which in principle must be discarded but that is not a hypothesis on which we have worked ”, she declares.
“Anne Hidalgo lets go of her first deputy and speaks against the statements made at the end of last week. What cynicism! We don’t play with people’s lives like that! »Tackles the boss of the opposition LR Rachida Dati.
She lets Jean Castex assume
According to our information, at the Town Hall, the debate seems to have taken place on a strict re-containment. “Given the data on the spread of the virus and the deteriorating situation, the subject has obviously been put on the table but Anne Hidalgo is very reserved on new restrictions. Emmanuel Grégoire therefore perhaps spoke a little too quickly, ”reports an assistant.
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Faced with the bronca raised by this hypothesis, Anne Hidalgo also probably prefers to let the Macron government take and announce this radical choice if it should finally take place. “I have always defended a regional vision in order to be effective. A re-containment at the departmental level is illusory, ”insists for her part Valérie Pécresse (Libres!) The president of the Ile-de-France region.
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The mayor of Paris, however, does not hesitate to criticize the current government strategy. “If we continue to tolerate a high level of viral circulation, with a virus that replicates a lot and thus mutates more, France will be lagging behind in the global competition for economic recovery and will bear the brunt of the social crisis by having abandoned his youth ”, regrets Anne Hidalgo.
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