Paris (AFP)

Emmanuel Macron hopes to make it "the plan of the whole Nation" but the head of state is already facing an outcry before the Tuesday presentation of the deconfinement strategy, the opposition demanding more time to judge it.

For several days and until the unveiling of its strategy Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. in the Assembly, the executive consults widely, hoping to gain support for its plan for after May 11.

The mayors were thus received by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, the regions and departments by Edouard Philippe on Thursday and Friday, before a new meeting of all these strata of elected officials on Monday around the Minister of Territorial Cohesion Jacqueline Gourault and ten members of the government. And it is the deputies who will take precedence over the global plan on Tuesday.

"The President of the Republic wants the deconfinement plan to be the plan of the whole Nation", in order to "get on board" everyone, local elected officials and actors on the ground, explains his entourage.

Expected on six priority themes, "health (masks, tests, isolation ...), school, work, shops, transport and gatherings", Edouard Philippe promised Sunday to start then "a period of co-construction of the national plan and its territorial variations ".

Because the executive assures him: the "mayor-prefect" couple will be in charge of the deployment on the ground. The prefects will also detail the measures as of Wednesday morning, as will the associations of elected officials, brought together by videoconference by Edouard Philippe.

A way also to recall that after the Tuesday presentation of "general architecture", dixit the Elysee, there will be room to adapt it.

"The subject will come back to Parliament on the occasion of a bill, presented in the very near future, authorizing the extension of the state of health emergency, which will also contain the legislative provisions essential for the implementation implementation of the deconfinement plan, "said the boss of LREM deputies Gilles Le Gendre, proposing in a letter to his troops, of which AFP had a copy, a meeting of the group Monday evening or Tuesday morning.

In another missive addressed to all the deputies, the president of the Assembly Richard Ferrand was indeed astonished "of a certain number of worries" even in the ranks of the majority, after the announcement Saturday evening of a presentation of the plan only three days later.

A euphemism in the light of the reactions of the oppositions, which shower all hope of the executive to create political unity.

- "Brutality" -

In their sights, two major grievances. The first is the sequence in a single sequence Tuesday afternoon of the presentation of the plan, the debate and the vote which, even if it does not engage the responsibility of the government, will have a strong symbolic significance.

"It seems to be democracy, it is only brutality," rebelled the leader of Insubordinate deputies Jean-Luc Mélenchon, describing the process as "imposture" and announcing his intention to vote against.

Like Mr. Mélenchon, The Republicans deplore the impossibility of having a "time for reflection" and call for a postponement of the vote until Wednesday or Thursday on "this extremely serious subject", says MP Eric Woerth.

The challenge even wins The Republic on the march. "How can the legislator pronounce in serenity on a + deconfinement plan + when he will discover it only a few minutes before the vote?", Questions MP Martine Wonner in a letter to Mr. Ferrand, also claiming that the ballot be postponed.

The second point of tension is the progress of this debate, which was supposed to take place initially on May 5, when a vote was planned instead on the tracking application "Stop Covid" which should allow to find the contacts of carriers of the coronavirus. The subject had caused a stir within the majority and its dilution in the question of deconfinement is perceived as a political maneuver.

"A single vote on the deconfinement plan (and therefore without the possibility of expressing an opinion on digital tracing as such) and with such a reduced number of deputies, does not correspond, with regard to the issues, to a sufficient level of parliamentary democracy ", thus estimated in a tweet the deputy LREM Aurélien Taché.

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