INTERVIEW
With the implementation of a territorial deconfinement and certain responsibilities left to the mayor-prefect couple, the government has bet on a form of decentralization and concentration in its management of the coronavirus health crisis. Essential links in the recovery, many local elected officials are calling for a new organization, leaving more power to local authorities. Sébastien Lecornu, Minister to the Minister for Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities, in charge of local authorities, reacts on Europe 1.
"In a health crisis, it is normal to have a national framework", answers Sébastien Lecornu to those who criticize decisions coming from the executive. "On the contrary, I believe that we have managed to find many local variations, in particular on the question of markets. (...) For a global pandemic, this epidemic on a national scale has nevertheless found a local variation. "
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