In the “JDD”, the mayor of Paris calls on the government to trust local elected officials. She also reaffirms that she will take “all [s] apart” in the 2022 presidential election.
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“With such shortcomings, the Landing of June 1944 would have failed.” A few days after bringing her first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire to the front line, Anne Hidalgo came out of her silence, in the Sunday Journal a > of January 10, to in turn scratch the government’s coronavirus vaccination strategy.
“Since decentralization, part of the competences depends on the communities: the State is not capable of doing the last mile “, judges the mayor of Paris, joining her voice to the criticisms of many elected officials on a vaccination campaign deemed too” slow “and too” centralized “.
“Instead of calling on private firms, like McKinsey, to think about strategy and logistics as decided by the government, it is the local elected officials that must be confidence “, adds the socialist councilor.
Development of a” commercial property “
Beyond the question of vaccination, Anne Hidalgo says she is” very concerned “by the fate of the 300,000 young people aged 18-25 in the capital. Believing that “this generation cannot be sacrificed”, the mayor announces the creation “before the summer” of a “youth center” whose objective will be to provide young people with “information on work-study arrangements , diploma training through work, internships, mentoring, but also civic service “.
Regarding restaurateurs and hoteliers hit hard by confinement, she says she works with the Caisse des Dépôts in the creation of a “commercial property”.
This property will offer direct aid to small businesses in difficulty or again to buy back business, in particular to restaurant owners or hotel owners, to allow them to have liquidity, “even if it means reselling them this heritage in the event of a return to better fortune”.
Asked by the “JDD” on the presidential deadline of 2022, Anne Hidalgo reaffirms that she will take it “completely apart” without giving more details on the form that this participation will take, while his candidacy is the subject of growing rumors. “The French do not want us to lock them in a Macron-Le Pen second round, she judges. And then, what would give five more years with Emmanuel Macron? Since 2017, nothing has changed for the better. “