- On April 13, Emmanuel Macron announced the gradual lifting of containment from May 11. The president instructed the government to present a deconfinement plan within two weeks.
- Since then, Matignon has instructed members of the government to list the questions posed by deconfinement, sector by sector.
- Once these questions have been centralized, Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex will have to make sure to provide coordinated answers before the plan is presented at the end of April.
Less than a month to deconfine. It is the mission of the government, after Emmanuel Macron announced Monday to the French the gradual lifting of containment from May 11. In his third speech since the start of the coronavirus crisis, the head of state set a tight schedule, instructing the government to "present within 15 days the post-May 11 plan and the details of organization of our daily life ”. "It's hot," breathes a ministerial adviser. The government therefore has two weeks to clarify the announcements by the President of the Republic, in particular on the reopening of schools, the "return" to work of "the greatest number" or the maintenance of confinement for the "most vulnerable" people.
Move questions up, department by department
To develop this plan, Edouard Philippe first asked each minister to identify the questions posed by deconfinement in their respective fields of competence. “He wants each minister to transmit the questions from their administrations. The lifts are underway, ”Matignon tells us. Many subjects are debated, and worry administrations, and the French. How to reopen schools while guaranteeing health security for all? From what age will we be considered "vulnerable", and on what health criteria? Will events be allowed? How will the screenings be carried out?
For example, the Minister of the Economy was entrusted with "two subjects, ensuring the resumption of work in companies, with Muriel Pénicaud [Minister of Labor] and supporting the sectors concerned affected by the extension of confinement, in tourism , restaurants, hotels, with Gérald Darmanin [at the Public Accounts] ”, one explains in his cabinet. "We noted a lot of questions, the idea is to be exhaustive and ask the right questions and then make the right decisions."
The Prime Minister should discuss this work in progress, Sunday, during the conference planned with the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. This speech will be mainly devoted to the health assessment of the epidemic, and the head of government will also address "the issues, the many questions that the ministers are asking, to involve the French", indicates his entourage. The idea is to be transparent about the complexity of deconfinement, in the context where the epidemic is not under control.
Philippe and Castex in coordination
Once each minister has returned his copy, the ministerial videoconferences will be linked, "every two, three days" in order to "develop coordinated answers to all these questions." Because we can not think about returning to work, without asking the question of public transport, for example in Ile-de-France. And one cannot ask the question of the resumption of public transport without asking that of the use of masks for the general public, ”one illustrates to Matignon.
"We must also look at what is happening in other countries, it will serve us as an education," says a close friend of the Head of State, anxious not to "repeat the scenario of the masks with the screenings".
The coordination of this plan is entrusted to Edouard Philippe and Jean Castex, in charge of the delicate mission of deconfinement. Pending the presentation of the plan, the ministers are instructed to limit their communication "to speaking only". While distrust of the management of this health crisis continues, according to several polls, the success of the deconfinement promises to be crucial for the executive.
Society
Coronavirus: Intelligence services fear end of containment
Society
Coronavirus: Small groups, masks, course content ... How could resuming school from May 11 happen?
- Covid 19
- Prime Minister
- Edouard Philippe
- Coronavirus
- Government
- Containment