Guillaume Tabard: "The four high-risk days of the government for deconfinement"

Édouard Philippe knows it: to prolong the state of health emergency, it will not find the same support as when it was introduced on March 23. It was forty days ago. Forties with the feeling of eternity in the political life and in the confined life of the French.

For a long time hoped, the sacred union fizzled. Opposition political forces are dismissing the government from its responsibilities, preferring to highlight its failures rather than support its efforts. Local authorities are furious at not being better associated with decisions. Public opinion, above all, approaches this eighth week of confinement with a mixture of impatience and fear that it will not be the last; and in a spirit of mistrust nourished by the evolving, sometimes imprecise, and therefore anxiety-provoking, nature of the information with which it is watered.

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In a flight marked by turbulence, the most difficult is not the descent itself, as rowdy as it is, as the landing. The government

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