Guillaume Tabard: "A presidential word at the risk of trivialization"

As of his first televised address, Thursday March 12, Emmanuel Macron had warned that he would speak whenever he deemed it necessary. He did so four days later to order containment. He did so on Wednesday to announce a "massive plan" for the hospital. Will he intervene a fourth time to warn the French of the extension of the confinement? If we add to these televised interventions, targeted trips (La Salpêtrière, Necker, an Ehpad, etc.), we see that the Head of State has chosen permanent communication.

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In total war, excessive presence? Four reasons overlap. The spirit of the Fifth Republic first, which focuses all the attention and all the expectations on the only President of the Republic; the rules of the media society then, which transforms each silence into absence; Macronian temperament still hungry for expression - for two years, the renewed promises of distance have never held more than a handful

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