Emmanuel Macron facing the French: how to reconcile Covid and recovery?
Emmanuel Macron will deliver a new address to the French this Monday evening at 8 p.m.
AP - Sarah Meyssonnier
Text by: Valérie Gas Follow
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Emmanuel Macron will pronounce a new address to the French this Monday evening July 12 at 8 p.m.
Before the summer break, the head of state wants to talk both about the health crisis and about the country's recovery.
A difficult exercise.
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Initially, Emmanuel Macron hoped to initiate a new stage and project the French with him into the sites of the end of the quinquennium to prepare for the presidential election. One of his advisers evoked a formula: "
Go from" whatever the cost "to" work, work, work "
". The progression of the Delta variant has disrupted these plans.
Before talking about economic and social recovery, the president will have to talk about compulsory vaccination, extension of the health pass, delisting of tests, because the surge of a new wave of Covid threatens France and the French who are divided into two camps: the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, between whom a minister considers that there is already a "
fracture, a tensioning of society
".
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Even if in the entourage of Emmanuel Macron we do not feel the president in the perspective of ending his five-year term "
by not doing much
", there are mined grounds: the passage to 64 years of age retirement is one of them.
For a member of the majority, "
announcing a reform when there is a health uncertainty, it is risky
".
Emmanuel Macron will he take this risk?
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