While the health situation continues to deteriorate and calls for a new turn of the screw multiply, nothing has yet been decided at the top of the State.

Within the executive, two lines now coexist, between a Jean Castex for whom the situation is no longer tenable and an Emmanuel Macron still dismissing the idea of ​​strict confinement. 

Emmanuel Macron will he end up cracking?

While the President of the Republic has so far refused to establish a third confinement, the pressure is growing, with a health situation continuing to deteriorate and health professionals increasing the calls for a new one. turn of the screw.

A defense council is to be held at the Elysee Palace on Wednesday, but within the government, no consensus on the measures to be adopted.

The debate between the pro and the anti-containment is even intensifying. 

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Two very different lines coexist within the executive.

First, that defended by Prime Minister Jean Castex and by Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

For them the situation is no longer tenable.

"We play with fire ... The French will never forgive us if we see a doctor on television who explains sorting out the patients to be treated, worries an advisor to Europe 1. Another concludes:" We no longer understand the strategy of not reconfiguring ".  

Macron counts on the acceleration of vaccination

On the other side, the line of Emmanuel Macron, that of the status quo.

The head of state wants to do everything to avoid reconfining the country.

A relative of the president explains that this week will be the confirmation that the strategy of not giving in is the right one, and even that we are certainly crossing the peak of the 3rd wave.

Noting that France will receive in the coming days three million doses of vaccines, this source suggests that we will have exceeded the target of 10 million vaccinations before mid-April.  

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If he is aware that this position is very difficult to hold politically, Emmanuel Macron who had not hidden that the next few weeks would be difficult, therefore does not want to change the course he had set for himself, still convinced that he can still win his bet.