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. And it is the deputies who will have the scoop on the global plan on Tuesday, before a question and answer session to the government exceptionally moved Wednesday at 11:00 am.

"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, which were all to be brought together by videoconference Monday but will ultimately be Wednesday at 9:00 am 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 ", thus clarified to his troops the boss of deputies LREM Gilles Le Gendre.

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.

An understatement in the light of the reactions of the oppositions, which have two main complaints.

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's only brutality," protested rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, announcing his intention to vote against.

The Republicans deplore the impossibility of having a "time for reflection" and call for a postponement of the vote until Wednesday or Thursday.

"Tuesday's voting conditions, immediately following a speech we know nothing about, without a law allowing us to amend, are an artifice of the government in trying to make us share its responsibility in the management fiasco of this health crisis, "said Marine Le Pen.

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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