The opposition wonders about state loans • TNTV Tahiti Nui Television

The government presented three types of announcements: health, economic and legislative. It is on this last point that the Tavini Huiraatira does not agree. Moetai Brotherson also wonders about the financial aid contracted with the State: “It’s not Polynesia that decides, it’s France that decides, it’s the State. That’s the beauty of autonomy, let’s say. There it is the State which decides to close the borders but it would be necessary that the State contributes to compensate for the economic and social shock that this will cause. I think any measure that helps is good to take. now nothing is free in this world. What we give at a given moment, it will be necessary to repay it at a given moment. The new state loan will have to be repaid at some point. I don’t understand why these are loans and why they are not aid. At some point you might have to ask the question a little more sharply. ”

Tavini is well aware of the difficulty of making decisions in this time of global crisis. Moetai Brotherson regrets, however, that the proposals submitted with Nuihau Laurey, at the time, were not accepted. “At the time when the first collective to set up aid measures was proposed, with Nuihau Laurey we imagined that we had to make a real effort from the start and that the disease had to be avoided. spread among us. We were covid free if we remember at that time. We could have stay if we had not reopened the borders in a slightly light way and we could have prepared beforehand because tourism would have necessarily been impacted, the air would have been impacted but we would perhaps have had more time to think really to a transformation of society. “

The other two political forces in the assembly did not wish to react.

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