A patient receives a dose of Covid vaccine – , in Strasbourg on January 4 849. – Jean-Francois Badias / AP / SIPA
The support is weighty because it does not come less than President LR regions of France. Renaud Muselier expressed Monday his “total confidence To Jean Castex to “accelerate and succeed” the vaccination campaign. We “extend our hand” to the Prime Minister, added the president of the Regional Council of
Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur during a press conference.
The Ministry of Health in the crosshairs
It must be said that the executive faces many criticism of the slowness of the launch of this campaign. LR President of the Grand-Est region, Jean Rottner, had thus evoked Monday, earlier in the afternoon, “a state scandal” on this subject, criticizing a “form of unpreparedness” and ” irresponsibility ”of the government. But for Renaud Muselier, the discontent of the regions would rather target the Ministry of Health: “I myself had difficulties with Mr. Véran”, the Minister of Health , he explained, indicating “to have withdrawn” for this reason for “negotiations” with the State and having asked Jean Rottner, a doctor like himself, “to take care of it”.
“The regions believe that there was no work with the communities. We don’t want to relive what we’ve been through with the masks and the tests. We did not say anything at the time of the first confinement but we were not blind ”, he specified.
Meeting of region presidents Wednesday
The president of the regions of France has also indicated having consulted the presidents of the regions to formulate proposals in order to develop a coherent vaccination strategy for the territories, “with targets, an organization, an operational capacity”. A meeting of regional presidents scheduled for Wednesday should allow him to provide “as much information as possible before the Defense Council” on the same day.
Jean Castex and Renaud Muselier will already have a first opportunity to talk about it this Tuesday. The Prime Minister is indeed expected in Toulon in the Var for the signing of a State-Region plan contract of 5.1 billion euros with the Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur region.