As France observes a day of national mourning this Monday, the idea of the government's announcement taking place on this day has not been formally ruled out. MP Estelle Youssouffa deplores such timing and a Parisian-centric policy.
“The general obsession of the political class in Paris is reshuffle.” Invited on France Inter this Monday, December 23 in the morning, Estelle Youssouffa, the deputy (Liot) for the 1st constituency of Mayotte, denounced the behavior “pathetic” of the French government since the overseas department was hit by Cyclone Chido.
While France is observing a day of national mourning this Monday, the idea of the government's announcement taking place on this day has not been formally ruled out. The Elysée simply made it known in the morning that, if there were a reshuffle, it would not happen “not before 6 p.m.” due to national mourning.
«You can […] the Prime Minister who visibly seems to be considering a reshuffle on a day of national mourning, gentleman who had a municipal council in Pauwho has still not come to Mayotte and who now plans to announce his new government on a day of national mourning”, tackles elected official Estelle Youssouffa.
“Contemptuous”
A potential timing that angers the MP. While there is “not enough help” et “not enough relief”, “we continue to have the discussion about who will have what position and this, on the day of national mourning, which is supposed to allow us all not only to reflect but to obtain greater mobilization “, she laments before letting go: “The little Parisian commotion continues, and in fact, we don't care about Mayotte. […] While we see all the compassion, the solidarity of our compatriots, their generosity, at the level of the political class it is pathetic.
Reporting the absence of water in Mayotte and the increasing looting, she deplores the government's insufficient investment: “I'm not only upset, I find it so contemptuous, so serious, so mediocre, that we no longer have words. I am with our population who have no water, no help, I desperately ask that we send the army to try to prevent us from falling into anarchy.
The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who went there last week, is accused by Estelle Youssouffa of having simply carried out a “communication operation” : he has “left the parliamentarians behind, he brought journalists and then he left. I haven't had any news […] since the minister left the island”, continues the chosen one. “In this island which is in great humanitarian distress, which is a health desert, we continue to have members of the government who make communications as if nothing had happened, she insists. It’s a rare obscenity.”
