“We are all fallible”, admits Bruno Le Maire

“We are all fallible”, declared the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, Bruno Le Maire, Wednesday November 24 on franceinfo, questioned on a video of Tuesday November 16 shot during the Congress of Mayors of France and in which we see the Prime Minister minister, Jean Castex, without a mask and without respecting barrier gestures a week before being tested positive for Covid-19, Monday. “We are all fallible”, repeated Bruno Le Maire, “let’s say it with humility and try to improve ourselves”.

“Politics is a commitment to human contact, I have been elected for 15 years and one of the pleasures of the chosen one is to meet fellow countrymen”, justified the minister. “I consider that when you are a politician, you are obviously not above the law, but when you do a human job, which calls for contact, it can be difficult to refrain from this contact even if you must do it “, concluded Bruno Le Maire.