In the News: the “yes but” of the French to a possible reconfinement
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The French in a metro station.
(Illustrative image) AFP - MARTIN BUREAU
By: Norbert Navarro
9 min
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The French are still broadly in favor of a new containment to try to counter the expansion of the coronavirus, but their approval is clearly weakening.
According to an Ifop poll for
Le Journal du Dimanche
, 60% of French people would indeed be in favor of a reconfinement, 56% would also be so with a possible ban on moving from one department to another, and 53% would approve of the maintenance of closure of all cultural venues.
That's a lot, but it's twenty points less than last spring, when the first confinement of France from March 2020 was approved by 80% of the French, and six points less than during the second confinement, which had been approved by two out of three French people.
This decline is all the more noticeable as the French now say they are clearly unfavorable to certain restrictions.
Thus, for 57% of them, no question of closing schools or for 63% of closing non-food businesses.
Even more clear, the French mistrust of the government to manage the consequences of the health crisis.
"The French do not trust the government to face the coronavirus effectively or to carry out the vaccination campaign
", states
The JDD
on the basis of an Ifop poll for this same weekly but also for CNews and Sud Radio, according to which barely just over one in three French people (36% exactly) trust the government to "
deal effectively with the coronavirus
".
In
Le Journal du Dimanche
, the Minister of Health said he hoped to be able to avoid a new wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Olivier Véran refers to a "
slight deceleration of contamination
".
The JDD
which in addition, makes its mea culpa for its One of the last week.
"
By titling last Sunday" Imminent Reconfinement ", the JDD was wrong
", admits this weekly, by presenting its "
apologies
" to its readers.
New borders
In the measures announced the day before last night by the executive to try to contain the expansion of the coronavirus in France, the most politically sensitive is undoubtedly the restoration of borders.
Macron is confronted with the "
border dilemma
", underlines,
L'Express
, "
it is a new one" at the same time "(...) which (the French president) did not expect: the European Emmanuel Macron convinced and convincing , and Emmanuel Macron, the first protector of the French and their health, are they compatible at a time when the Covid crisis intensifies?
“Asks this magazine.
Emphasizing the "
epidermal nature of the subject
",
L'Express
recognizes however that, "
when it comes to having a grip, France knows how to do it.
And quickly
", as was the case with the total closure of the borders with the United Kingdom at Christmas,"
which resulted in its share of nationals condemned to spend a lonely New Year's Eve
".
For the executive, this weekly explains again, it is important
not to “instill in people's minds that the danger would come from beyond and from otherness.
Exactly what he criticizes Marine Le Pen and his flock,
”admits
L'Express
.
Balladur's accounts and shortcomings
Drama at the “
Balladur trial
” in Paris.
His name is René Galy-Dejean, he was an RPR deputy, but also and above all treasurer of Edouard Balladur's electoral campaign in the 1995 presidential election. This time, of course, he lied to the Court of justice of the Republic.
Remembering that justice seeks to know where the payments of more than ten million francs in cash came from the campaign accounts of candidate Balladur during this presidential campaign lost in 1995, René Galy-Dejean, now aged 88 years old, denied having sent "
a note to Edouard Balladur
" in which the financial operations carried out for the candidate Balladur were recorded before the presentation of the official accounts to the Constitutional Council.
Le Canard Enchaîné
having revealed the existence of this note which René Galy-Déjean affirms under oath that he no longer remembers
, Le Journal du Dimanche
has taken note of the said note and indicates that the treasurer was
"caught in the act of lying
", since he wrote in this note: “
To be destroyed after reading.
There is only one other copy, in a safe, and which will soon be destroyed by me
”.
In this secret letter to Edouard Balladur, it is also stated that
"the hard disks of the computers used have been" cleaned "by a specialist from the Ministry of the Interior
"!
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