Coronavirus: for the right, the two heads of the executive are in their "corridor" and their management remains confused

The need to support power in times of "war" does not prevent the Right from taking a critical look at the two heads of the executive.

"The distribution of roles is consistent with the institutional game of the Fifth Republic," observes Bruno Retailleau. The leader of the Republicans in the Senate, however, believes that Emmanuel Macron has never been able to find "neither the right pace, nor the right tone" . The speeches of the Head of State appear to him "grandiloquent" and "anxiety-provoking". "Too often, this oratorical exercise wants to give the illusion of action because, for Macron, to say is already to do," criticizes Retailleau. The current crisis is hardening "paroxysmally", according to him, "a disconnect between words and action".

Faced with the President of the Republic, Bruno Retailleau feels that the Prime Minister is taking his marks while being aware of the "weakness" of presidential communication. “Édouard Philippe uses simple words, tries to be transparent, gives a speech

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