Guillaume Tabard: "Macron, in search of lost confidence"

And now, it passes or it breaks.

The President of the Republic has spoken.

If his word does not quickly give the expected fruits, there will no longer be an appeal authority in the country to guarantee this triple imperative: to stop the restart of the virus, to prevent the economic and social collapse of the country and preserve the minimum cohesion of the nation.

If a single column

of this tripod gives way, France will be in danger.

This Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron's tone reflected this awareness, as on the evening

of his speech on March 16 announcing confinement.

Except: at the time, he had not used the word himself, while this time the word "curfew" - the shock measure that we will remember - was explicitly cited and justified.

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And for good reason: above all, clarity was needed.

This clarity that public opinion, rightly or wrongly, does not recognize in the government's management of the crisis since the start of the school year;

in turn guilty and infantilizing, sufficient in its pretensions

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