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Policies "like caged lions" during confinement

2020-03-31T18:42:26.143Z


BIG STORY - When some elected officials run after the videoconference emergency, others deceive boredom at home.


Overnight, they left the galvanizing scene of the meetings to confine themselves. Forget the adrenaline of the countryside and the hectic days. From their sofas, those who run an executive organize the emergency as best they can while the others, idle, imagine the post-crisis. First groggy, the political game resumes its rights.

Mayors, the first point of contact for a worried population, have adopted Facebook Live to address their fellow citizens every day. "We must reinvent proximity," says Laurent Hénart, the radical mayor of Nancy, who speaks to his fellow citizens every day. Luc Carvounas has just been elected mayor of Alfortville even if the municipal council could not be convened to confirm the choice of ballot boxes. "My new life is a series of phone calls, emails, videoconferences, WhatsApp loops" , testifies the socialist, who believes "living a science fiction film ... Except that we are the actors. "

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Source: lefigaro

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