“We should have anticipated this need for dialogue and understanding”, judge Michel Barnier

“In Guadeloupe, you need both authority and dialogue”, declared Michel Barnier, candidate for the nomination of the Republicans and ex-chief negotiator of Brexit for the European Union, Tuesday, November 23, on franceinfo. “We should have anticipated this need for dialogue and understanding with local elected officials and with caregivers”, he added while the overseas department has been facing for several days violence which originates from the challenge to the vaccination obligation of caregivers.

For Michel Barnier, there is “a particular situation in Guadeloupe and Martinique, in particular because of a mistrust which has existed for quite a long time vis-à-vis the word that comes from Paris, it is linked to a local situation which is that of chlordecone, which poisoned and continues to poison the land “. According to the candidate for the LR nomination, the dialogue must allow us to reach out to caregivers and local elected officials “a little better than we have done in recent weeks”. Addressing the government, Michel Barnier adds that the overseas departments “must be in the Republic and treated like all the others” departments.

The candidate for the LR nomination was therefore in favor of maintaining the compulsory vaccination of caregivers, considering that “it is a general rule which applies for safety and public health”. He also felt that it was necessary “return to free tests for the unvaccinated”, in the French overseas territories and in mainland France. “We must adapt, anticipate, it is also a way of preventing. Prevention always costs less than repair “, did he declare. Six months before the first round of the presidential election, Michel Barnier thinks that it will be necessary to make the health pass compulsory in political meetings: “It is a necessary health precaution”.