UFC-Que Choisir details its “20 priorities”, including the regulation of the installation of doctors

Less than two weeks before the legislative elections, the UFC-Que Choisir draws up its 20 priorities and calls on candidates to seize them.

Regulation of the installation of doctors, creation of a “enforceable right to a form of care for young children”…The UFC-Que Choisir details, Tuesday June 18 on its website, its “20 priorities” ahead of the anticipated legislative elections. They are structured around three components: protection of the environment and the health of citizens, their purchasing power and the reduction of territorial inequalities.

The president of the consumer association, Marie-Amandine Stévenin, comments on these priorities on France Inter. “Supervise access to doctors” amounts to “do not allow them to settle in an over-endowed area”. In France, “there really are medical deserts”, she recalls. For example, “one in two children lives in a medical desert area, concerning pediatricians”.

Other “priority”, “the creation of an enforceable right to affordable and quality care for young children”. “The first step in a young child’s life is being able to be cared for in good conditions, which allows parents to go to work with peace of mind,” she points.

“There are also measures that will concern children’s nutrition, and in particular the regulation of advertising aimed at them, because we know that these advertisements will often concern products that are too fatty, too sweet, too salty and will therefore lead to health problems such as obesity. It would also be a very good idea to make the nutri-score compulsory. she adds.

The UFC-Que Choisir also wants candidates for the early legislative elections to commit “to be strictly restricted” the use of pesticides, which “must be accompanied by all measures to guarantee access to quality drinking water throughout the territory, free of nitrates and pesticides, and to prevent water waste”. The association calls on candidates to “seize” of its “20 priorities” And “to defend them within the framework of the campaign”. Better, she encourages them “to implement them after the elections in a major law on consumption”.