Covid-19: the hard week of the French executive
Caregivers watch the March 18 press conference in which the Prime Minister announced the third confinement.
REUTERS - BENOIT TESSIER
Text by: Valérie Gas Follow
2 min
Since the announcements of Jean Castex on the reconfinement of 16 departments, the government is under pressure.
Between incomprehensible measures and faulty communication, the deterioration of the health situation will perhaps lead to the announcement of new measures on Thursday.
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What is certain is that in terms of communication, the government is looking for the right formula, and cannot find it, since Jean Castex was sent to the front to announce a reconfinement which does not should not have that name.
A reconfinement judged "
not suitable
" by Emmanuel Macron the next day, and whose implementation reached heights of bureaucratic complexity.
Before an attempt at pedagogy via a slogan "Inside with mine, outside as a citizen" which only succeeded in provoking parody hijackings on social networks.
"
It's a collective failure
," concedes, morosely, a close friend of the Prime Minister.
A collective failure that points to an increasingly criticized health strategy, the effectiveness of which is called into question by the outbreak of the epidemic to which doctors are alerting and which affects more and more territories.
Three new departments are in the hot seat.
Suddenly, the evoked prospect of an improvement in April could turn into spring under confinement.
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