May 11 will not be a return to normal: this is the message that the executive, Emmanuel Macron in mind, is trying to make French people understand. "May 11 will be an important step ... It will not be a transition from the current state to normal life. We must continue the support. Times are difficult but I said: we will find the happy days", the head of state said on Friday in a video released on May 1. Before adding: "It is thanks to the work that the Nation holds" in the face of the coronavirus.
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"Happy Days". Once again, the president of the Fifth Republic alludes to the program adopted at the National Council of the Resistance in March 1944. But behind the scenes, certain members of the government begin to find the method a little light. The sweetness of the message worries them, because they fear that it will not pass.
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"We don't make French people aware of the violence of the coming crisis"
For some, in fact, the executive should more clearly call on the French to resume work on May 11. Worried, an important adviser confided to us: "We do not make the French aware of the violence of the crisis that is coming after May 11". A way of saying, on this workers' day, that most of the work is ahead of us, economically anyway.