Calm, serene, but determined in his burgomaster’s fight against the coronavirus (his commune of Lubbeek is, proportionally, one of the most affected in Flemish Brabant), Theo Francken talks about the responsibility of China and our chaotic management of the crisis. “We have plans for all disasters, but we didn’t have a real plan for a pandemic. It can never happen again, ”he says.
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The N-VA was in government when our strategic stock of masks was destroyed and not reconstituted, right?
I don’t understand anything about this story. I never heard of it. We had the same debate over the stock of iodine pills in the event of a nuclear accident. The stock was expired and, with Jan Jambon, then Minister of the Interior, we decided to rebuild it; it also cost millions of euros, but we did it. Proof that this is not a budgetary problem.
Has this never happened in the Council of Ministers?
No no. I have no memory of it. I asked Jan Jambon’s chief of staff at the time, it didn’t mean anything either. He couldn’t believe it …
Admit that it is still incredible?
Yes, that’s the reality: it has never been discussed in the Council of Ministers. I can’t say anything else.
► Theo Francken confides in the management of this crisis.
► Europe, Wallonia, the PS, China, … The former Secretary of State tells us what he thinks
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