Emmanuel Macron will not escape the curse of the Fifth Republic. Like almost all of his predecessors, here is the President of the Republic struck by this stroke of fate or fate which irreversibly deviates the course of a mandate. The oil shock for Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The “external constraint” for François Mitterrand. The failed dissolution for Jacques Chirac. The 2008 crisis for Nicolas Sarkozy. Terrorist attacks for François Hollande. And, now, the coronavirus crisis for Emmanuel Macron.
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Faced with this epidemic of disproportionate and unprecedented consequences, the five-year counters are reset. The reforms of the last three years are overwritten, a new mandate begins. It is still necessary to give it content.
The President of the Republic kicked off the practical work and the common thread of his reflection during his televised address on April 13, calling for "going outside the box, ideologies" and to
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