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Le Figaro

Dalin, the honors of the line,

L'Équipe

The President of the Republic and his government

La Charente Libre, "are stepping up the maneuvers and changing tack in the home stretch before approaching this unknown continent full of dangers, the third confinement.

The state of the country amply explains this caution,

and the care taken in the decision which exasperates a very large majority of us.

A big fatigue has seized the social body that Dr. Macron is called to operate urgently.

It is no longer just a question of sparing the small business, of protecting the elderly, the hospital and the youth, of sorting out the essentials of the accessory but above all of marrying all at the same time without stifling the voice of the reason which invites us to support the prohibitions.

The absolute tragedies that the United Kingdom or Portugal are experiencing, the violence in the streets in Northern Europe, the curves of the pandemic are all warning signs for those who govern us.

On the brink of an economic as well as psychological collapse, France cannot afford a shock of violence

Le Figaro.

This is also why before considering a new confinement, the President of the Republic wanted to wait to be certain that the curfew was not enough to block the spread of the virus.

And, now that he knows it, he is giving himself a few more hours, even a few days, to decide on the terms and make the announcement.

Because the rate of adhesion to confinement continues to decrease,

85% in May, 60% in October, 40% today, Emmanuel Macron has a feeling that any too brutal cold shower effect would be likely to set fire to in the country.

Hence the good old communication technique of progressive addiction.

Le Parisien

 Emmanuel Macron should decide this weekend or Monday at the latest.

By then, the president will have received the results of two eagerly awaited studies: one on the prevalence of the English variant in the positive cases identified in recent days, the other on the effects of the 6 p.m. curfew in force for ten days throughout France.

The results could be released this evening, or tomorrow morning.

The great lassitude of the French

Le Monde

France is in the dark.

At the end of 2020, at the end of long trying months, the opening of the vaccine season suggested that the bulk of the ordeal was behind us, that the end of the epidemic would, of course, take time but that the end of the tunnel was in sight because vaccines were there, miraculously found in less than a year, at the end of an unprecedented international cooperation.

We had to be disillusioned

Le Monde.

The virus mutates, its speed of circulation increases, its dangerousness can also be.

Far from being circumscribed, the epidemic continues to impose its tempo.

no one can predict when we will get out of it, or in what state.

It is in this context

Le Monde, that the President of the Republic must decide on the date and extent of a re-containment that the medical profession now deems inevitable.

His hesitations are understandable, says the newspaper: we do not impose with a snap of the fingers on a country on the verge of burnout a scenario that seems to plunge it back a year.

opposing opinions tend to harden: some do not understand that the executive has not already re-defined, others warn that they will not support a new deprivation of liberty.

A risk of civil disobedience exists, which it is imperative, concludes Le Monde, to ward off to avoid further tragedies.