Covid-19 in France: the management of containment alarms all sides of the opposition
The leader of the rebels, Jean-Luc Melenchon, is alarmed by the acceptability of the measures by the French.
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Will a curfew be established, in addition to confinement, in Paris?
This Tuesday morning, the government spokesperson affirmed it, before being denied in the wake of Jean Castex, the Prime Minister.
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This is a new government quack in the form of a symbol of an increasingly erratic management of the health crisis, for an opposition which is sounding the alarm in the face of the exponential progression of the virus.
Haro on the government for the president of the national rally, Marine Le Pen.
“
I think the government is totally overwhelmed, it is totally into improvisation and improvisation in this area is eminently worrying,
” she said.
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As for the boss of LR deputies, Damien Abad, the quack this Tuesday is yet another example: there is no pilot on the plane.
"
We no longer understand anything, it confuses the French, and it unfortunately shows that this government is the professionals of amateurism
", continues the deputy LR.
Measurement acceptability problem
These orders and counter-orders that worry in the ranks of the opposition, whatever it is.
"
This is serious, because for the French to accept containment, respect it, understand it, and fight the virus together, they must already understand and judge that what the government is asking for is fair," and this is not the case,
”says Jean-Christophe Lagarde, of the UDI.
This problem of acceptability of increasingly restrictive measures is also raised by the leader of the rebels, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"
If you give absurd and constantly changing orders, don't expect anything more from an educated and cultured people than a refusal to obey, and that is what is emerging. , I fear it a lot,
”he said.
At Matignon, we put the quack into perspective.
There is no room for controversy in the face of "
a reality of hospitals which is catching up with us
".
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