Turn the page, and quickly!
This is the Prime Minister's strategy to make people forget the political crisis caused by the famous article 24 of the comprehensive security bill.
Even if it means indulging in a little Coué method.
The exit door has been worked out in pain, that's nothing to say.
And results in a decline of the executive.
But in front of the leaders of the majority, with whom he exchanges on this Tuesday morning, Jean Castex estimates that this one "is likely to appease".
The controversies surrounding Article 24?
The head of government hopes to leave them quickly behind him, or even as soon as he once again speaks on the subject this Wednesday morning on BFM TV.
Because on Tuesday, at each of its parliamentary meetings, Castex continued its demining operation, justifying and defending the government's backtracking, presenting it as an opportunity to "remove all ambiguities", promising consultation.
"I assume my share of responsibility", he conceded during the meeting of the LREM group, while the opposition denounces "a fiasco".
The reason for the flood of criticism?
“We have been caught in the back on intentions that are not ours,” says Castex.
In practice, the book will be put back on the job "under the aegis of the Law Commission".
"We must clarify the substance and it is you who will be responsible for it even before speaking of support", insists the Prime Minister before the Marchers, a good part of whom expresses his frank opposition to the hypothesis of an integration of the contested article in the separatism bill.
Gérald Darmanin intervenes little.
But reminds deputies, notes a participant, that this Friday we will celebrate Sainte-Barbe, the feast ... of firefighters.
Vaccination and deconfinement objective
However, is the fire of article 24 contained?
Not yet.
The Senate, where the right is in the majority, should not hesitate to stir the knife in the wound when the text is considered there in January.
"We should not drag this plaster until March," worries a walker from the start.
And then, there are the traces that this episode left in the majority.
Rewriting part of a text that has just been voted on by 388 votes goes badly.
Some come back to it, Jean Castex does not wish to dwell on it.
A side "all is well" which annoy some.
But the Prime Minister is convinced of this: what worries the French is the health and economic situation.
And it is to this crisis that he intends to devote his weekend.
To better try to regain control?
"This article 24 affair has not affected the deep country," said a former minister, when a government adviser bet that "if Castex shows that he is capable of carrying out the process of vaccination and deconfinement, then , we will have forgotten the affair of these last days ”.
Difficult to exist under Emmanuel Macron
This Thursday, the head of government will host a press conference with several ministers on the vaccine strategy.
A crucial step, where he will address himself directly to the French.
Only the media bandwidth will be reduced ... Once is not customary, the two heads of the executive will indeed speak the same day.
Emmanuel Macron chose to speak a little earlier in the day on the online media Bru t in order to answer Internet users' questions on police violence and freedom of the press.
The Head of State had already considered discussing this popular site among young people after his speech at Les Mureaux, before giving it up.
To make matters worse, Emmanuel Macron has already deflowered a major announcement in terms of vaccines.
On the occasion of a meeting with the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, the President announced that a general public vaccination campaign will take place between "April and June".
After a more limited phase reserved for the most fragile people.
He should also visit a research laboratory this Friday.
Not easy to exist in times of crisis, and under Emmanuel Macron.
