Covid-19: Emmanuel Macron takes back control
French President Emmanuel Macron, here in Paris on October 6, 2020. AP Photo / Lewis Joly
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Emmanuel Macron will address the French this Wednesday at 8 p.m. on television to discuss the health and economic situation.
The President of the Republic deemed his word to be necessary as France entered the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
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No formal address, but pedagogy.
This is what Emmanuel Macron will try to do this Wednesday evening: explain the situation and its challenges, while
the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care
is at the highest since May.
He chose for this to be questioned by the presenters of the 20h of TF1 and France 2, a meeting at a prime time to address the greatest number.
This time, the President of the Republic wants to answer questions and put the weight of his word at the service of a message of mobilization of all French people in the fight against the virus.
In essence, the head of state wants to tell them that stopping the second wave is everyone's responsibility.
But beware, it is not a question of teaching the citizens a lesson, says one at the Elysee.
No question of making them feel guilty, but of telling them: "we will win together".
Positive accountability in a way.
The president must also make announcements.
Some test balloons have been launched, in particular on the establishment of curfews in areas of high circulation of the virus, on the model of Guyana and several German cities.
The hypothesis of local reconfinements is always presented as a possibility of last resort.
A defense council met on Tuesday to examine all options.
In the entourage of the president, the stated objective is to "
find the right solutions and that they are audible by all
".
The government, by dint of orders and counter-orders, has fabricated disorder and the government's word is damn questioned.
The hypothesis of a curfew divides the Assembly
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