“Unheard-of debility”, “abuse”: Anne Hidalgo tackles the government on the management of the coronavirus crisis: Current Woman The MAG

On Monday March 16, 2020, Emmanuel Macron spoke at 8 p.m. to announce the start of confinement. A speech followed by 35.3 million viewers, which marked the beginning of 55 days during which the French had to reduce contact and travel to their bare minimum. Measures put in place to protect the population from a deadly virus: the coronavirus. In its edition of Wednesday July 22, 2020, the Vanity Fair looks back on this complicated period which ended on Monday, May 11, 2020. Anne-Sophie Lapix, Pio Marmaï, Olivier Véran or even Anne Hidalgo spoke with great sincerity in the columns of the magazine how they experienced confinement and deconfinement. The Mayor of Paris also took advantage of this forum to attack the government …

"This decision is incredibly stupid"

The politician found it very difficult to accept the executive's position on the capital's parks. “When I understand that the government is not reopening parks and gardens, I am devastated. This decision is incredibly stupid. This is the most bureaucratic, Jacobin decision ever ", she remembered. "Bottom line: Parisians are piling up on the ends of the sidewalks and our elders have nowhere to walk. I'm not giving up because of this decision. It is abuse ", she added, still outraged by this choice she does not understand.

Anne Hidalgo also did not appreciate the lack of communication from the Minister of National Education regarding the reopening of schools. "Fortunately, I work well with the rector, that we have very involved teams, because Jean-Michel Blanquer has not called me once during the entire period of confinement ", she said.

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