Gérard Larcher. – PIERRE VILLARD / SIPA
The government wants to accelerate the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus after many criticisms.
Local elected officials denounced “failing logistics” and ask the executive to be associated with this strategy.
Some advocate the establishment of “vaccinodromes” to enable the population to be vaccinated quickly.
Once again, the local elected officials go to the front. As in the spring when the mask shortage , many of them denounce the deficiencies of the State, considered too centralized and incapable of responding to the crisis on its own of the coronavirus . The communities have thus offered their services to accelerate the campaign of vaccination against Covid – 18 .
This Wednesday morning on, France 2, Gérard Larcher thus denounced a “lack of preparation” and “flawed logistics”, pleading for “a real dialogue in trust Between the government and local elected officials. ” How do you do 600 vaccination centers if you do not rely on the infrastructure of municipalities and communities of municipalities? “, Asked the president in particular ( LR ) of the Senate in reference to the wishes of the executive of
speed up your vaccination plan.
From November, “we told Jean Castex : “Can we help you” “
Many elected officials complain of a lack of dialogue. “We have no answer, there was no consultation, as in any of the previous phases, annoyed the LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard on Europe 1. There is a large discrepancy between the official discourse in which we mean ‘territory, territory, territory’, and the reality on the ground. “Same story with his colleague from Caen Joël Bruneau (LR) on LCI:” Everything goes back to Paris. It’s scary of centralism. The socialist mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll told him on France Info that he had learned “by radio” of the start of vaccination in his city on Tuesday evening. “All this in improvisation and without discussion between us. “
The Association of Mayors of France says however asking the government at the end of November to be involved in decisions on the vaccination campaign. “We told Jean Castex: ‘We can help you, organize things in the field. Set up queues, boxes for vaccination, enter the information of vaccinated people, we know how to do ”, laments Philippe Laurent, secretary general of the AMF and UDI mayor of Sceaux, to 19 Minutes. We made proposals again in December, and again at the start of the week. But the executive is soft and does not trust us. “
A change of foot on the “vaccinodromes”?
Mayors and presidents of regions are now pushing for the establishment of “vaccinodromes” , these large mass vaccination centers installed in gymnasiums for example, like in Germany. Renaud Muselier, president (LR) of the Paca region and of the Régions de France association, assures us that he has asked Prime Minister Jean Castex for more consultation, “with the departments for nursing homes, with town halls for vaccinodromes, with pharmacies to decentralize. We have to go fast, ”he said. The presidents of the regions also asked this Wednesday the state to authorize them to buy vaccines to participate in the vaccination campaign.
After having privileged
vaccination in medical establishments , the government seems in any case willing to further develop its strategy. Within two weeks, 310 vaccination centers outside hospitals will be set up in the territory, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday. “We feel that things are moving, our prefect has convened a meeting at the end of the week with the mayors on this theme,” assures the Hauts-de-Seine councilor Philippe Laurent. Their strategy is changing, even if they don’t want to admit that they were wrong. What we regret is that all this was not started at the end of November ”. The Prime Minister is expected to give more details on this vaccination campaign Thursday during a press conference scheduled for 16 hours.