"It was very I decide, he performs!" Blows a pillar of the majority. In the aftermath of Emmanuel Macron's speech, no one is hiding this Tuesday in the ranks of the government: the pressure is intense. Fifteen days to build a deconfinement plan! To which is added the implementation of new emergency measures, also announced Monday evening.
All this while continuing to manage “strict” confinement for another month, at a minimum. As a minister modestly says, "the arbitration meetings will follow one another at a sustained pace" in the coming days.
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As of this Tuesday morning, Edouard Philippe brought together the ministers concerned to work on the modalities of exceptional aid for precarious families and modest students. The Ministry of Health and Solidarity, as well as Bercy, have put the turbo. Objective ("if everyone works well," says a pillar of the executive): to be able to propose the finalized device to the Council of Ministers scheduled for Wednesday.
Council during which the second amending finance bill will be examined, including the increase in the solidarity fund, the consideration of the lengthening of the confinement on public finances or the question of leave and bonuses in the Public Service. But that's not all. An interministerial videoconference, still under the aegis of the Prime Minister, is also scheduled this Wednesday on the care of the elderly in Ephad and at home.
"There are a lot of questions"
The big piece remains the deconfinement plan, to be built in fifteen days flat. "It's very short," admits a close friend of Philippe. True to the posture adopted for the reconstruction of Notre-Dame last year or "the rapid compromise" required on pension reform this winter, the president fixed the line Monday evening. The instructions are precise. It remains to orchestrate them…
“The plan will be global. In all sectors of life, it will be necessary to give visibility to the French to say how the deconfinement is gradually organized. So all the ministries are brought to floor on it as part of the mission entrusted to Jean Castex, "said government spokesman Sibeth Ndiaye.
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The questions raised are not small, ranging from the provision of masks and tests, to the modalities of reopening schools, passing by the definition of what is “an elderly person”… “They are under pressure. There are a lot of questions. And as soon as we solve one, there are two new ones that emerge, observes a close friend of the president. A series of new collective rules must be invented and passed on to public opinion. "
The risk ? "That we communicate over the water and that we no longer understand anything", continues the same. Edouard Philippe also passed the orders on to his ministers as soon as the conference call organized on Monday at 7.45pm to reveal to the government the President's speech in preview: “We don't think out loud. In other words, hiccups prohibited.
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Additional source of pressure, behind the scenes, a little music is played on the entry into government of prominent personalities, once the crisis has passed. "The president is reflecting on the means of gathering to mobilize," said one of his followers, who spoke of "great figures from all walks of life".
While bookmakers are already launching names - those of former right and left ministers like Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Manuel Valls, Michel Barnier, Stéphane Le Foll or François Rebsamen - the friends of Edouard Philippe note that 'Emmanuel Macron did not quote his Prime Minister during his 27 minutes of speech, Monday evening.
For now, those close to the president are tempering, hammering that it is far too early, that the horizon of "after" is still far away. One of them summarizes: "We will have to consult, see if a consensus is established, before looking at who will embody it in a hypothetical reorganized government. Before knowing who the horse is, you still need to know which plow you want to pull. "
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