Guillaume Tabard: "Post-crisis scenarios that hinder crisis management"

In political grammar, time errors are more serious than agreement errors. Rumors of a divergence, even a divorce, between Emmanuel Macron and Édouard Philippe could not have come at a worse time than the day when the Prime Minister revealed to the French people the timetable and the procedures for the deconfinement. The head of state, in the Council of Ministers, had to warn that he would have "no complacency with those who try to divide" the two heads of the executive.

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The development, indeed, was necessary. First, out of decency. It was inconceivable that political speculations would take precedence over announcements essential to the resumption of the country. By necessity to save the credit of public speaking, then. We already see the immense difficulty of the government in obtaining confidence in its management of the crisis. While the Philippe plan remains under the seal of constraint, the echo of disagreements between the Élysée and Matignon would undermine the authority of

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