Headlines: the leap into the unknown of deconfinement

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By: Norbert Navarro

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Jumping into the unknown is the feeling of the French. According to an Ifop survey published by Le Parisien Dimanche , “  53% of French people believe that the greatest risk for them and their loved ones is to be infected with (coronavirus). While, for 47% of those polled, it is the economic consequences of the crisis that are the greatest cause for concern  ”.

According to this Ifop survey, “  54% of the wealthiest people believe that it is better to return quickly to normal life, even if it means assuming a greater health risk, to protect the economy. The opposite is true for 73% of the poorest who campaign for an excess of sanitary measures even if this leads to a worsening of the economic crisis,  ”reports Le Parisien Dimanche .

The challenge is immense, especially at school:

"  Tomorrow is D-Day  ", counts Le Journal du Dimanche , on the front page of which the Minister of National Education looks confidently. And the reader of the JDD will quickly translate that, behind this apparent assurance, Jean-Michel Blanquer is probably trying to conceal the tension of this unusual “back to  school  ” class that, in Le JDD , the minister prefers to call “  recovery  ”.

And Jean-Michel Blanquer is playing big. Because it was he who made the decision to reopen the schools despite the opinion of the scientific council which recommended reopening them in September because of the threat of the coronavirus on the health of students and their families :

The least that can be said in any case, is that, more than ever, the very communicative Blanquer communicates at all costs.

In The JDD again this morning, and even in Elle a few days earlier. In his real argument for this women's magazine, Jean-Michel Blanquer thus pointed out to the alleged readership of mothers that, during confinement, 4% of the pupils "  disappeared from radar screens, ie 500,000 pupils  "! He had to reopen classes, he explains, because to close school for more than six months was “to  run the risk of dropping out of school for tens of thousands of children. We don't die only from Covid-19 , therefore justifies the Minister of Education in Elle . I s is the domestic violence and school dropout has dramatic consequences. (…) You have to reason a contrario, he argues. Would we stay at home until a vaccine is found? It's unimaginable.  "

In the weekly L'Obs , an adviser to the minister admits it. “  If Jean-Michel Blanquer went out of his way to get the President (Macron) back in May (…) it is because he is intimately convinced of the benefits of schooling… and of his own policy for fight against academic difficulty  ". But this coronavirus crisis “  will have seen the star (by Jean-Michel Blanquer) pale among teachers. But also within the macronie  ”, points L'Obs .

So if France is today living its last day under cover, it is to be wondered by reading L'Obs , if the Minister of Education is not going, very quickly, to ring the bells ...

In Africa, under the guise of helping populations, the coronavirus pandemic has fueled the political recovery of certain leaders :

Oil cans or bags of pasta offered in neighborhoods with large drum and trumpet reinforcements. And goodies also, sometimes, bearing the image of the very generous, very disinterested and very very democratic donor.

L'Express reports that in Côte d'Ivoire, "the round face of the Ivorian Prime Minister and his initials -" AGC ", for Amadou Gon Coulibaly - are displayed on buckets for washing hands, bottles of liquid soap and rice bags.

The photos of the distribution of aid kits to families hit by the health crisis in Côte d'Ivoire have (…) caused controversy,  ”points out L'Express . "An electoral propaganda operation! Do not politicize the coronavirus pandemic", denounced the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (…) Embarrassed at the sidelines, the Prime Minister's Office assured that the leader's image had been used " without its prior authorization " by local elected officials who sought to make themselves seen  ", adds L'Express .

Ivory Coast, but not only…:

This weekly indeed reports that in Gabon, President Ali Bongo, has thus created "  out of his own money  " a fund of 2.1 billion CFA francs (3.2 million euros) to reimburse the medical expenses of households the most fragile. "  But, like his father and predecessor, Omar, he would tend to confuse public finances with his personal purse  ," states L'Express .

Magazine in which Séverin Kouamé, teacher-researcher at the University of Bouaké, explains that “  these rulers take advantage of the fact that a good part of the voters are illiterate. They bet on a solidarity of the emotion and the belly rather than on a political program  ”, continues L'Express .

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