Ants in the legs.
And the desire to do battle.
Despite the health crisis that occupies him
"every day, morning, noon, evening",
and again Wednesday with a new Defense Council, Emmanuel Macron keeps some time to monitor his opponents.
The President of the Republic opened up to his ministers meeting in government seminar to orchestrate the reform program at the end of his mandate.
Faced with his right and left opponents who tirelessly pound his health strategy and denounce a five-year term at a standstill, the president said he wanted
"not to let anyone preempt
the results
of (their) action, of which we can be proud"
.
In front of his ministers in full, he even bluntly declined a pre-campaign argument:
"When the left criticizes us, it forgets that never as much had been done in social matters with the" Ségur de la santé ", the duplication of classes. CP and CE1, the increase in social minima, the reduction of the housing tax for the most modest. ”
So much for the socialists.
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"When the right criticizes us, it forgets that never before had so much been done on labor law, the reform of the SNCF, the reduction of production taxes, the recruitment of police and gendarmes, the fight against radical Islamism . "
So much for The Republicans.
So there remain the Greens, whom the Head of State did not spare either:
"When the ecologists criticize us, they forget that they had not assumed to give up Notre-Dame-des-Landes, to close coal-fired power stations as well as Fessenheim. "
Hence the instructions hammered out during the seminar, but also in the Council of Ministers, as recalled by the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal.
“The reforming ambition of 2017 has never left us.
(…) The slogan is clear: the transformation of the country continues. ”
With one nuance.
The Head of State admitted to his troops that the management of the health crisis would nevertheless occupy the executive
"until the spring"
.
Until then, he still called on the government to
"not give up anything on (their) identity: liberate, protect, unite"
.
Emmanuel Macron said it during the seminar: he wants ministers
“even more in the field, in the local press, in contact, who will explain our results, what we are doing”.
We still have to succeed in making ourselves heard beyond the Covid epidemic which still occupies everyone's minds.
Beyond the motivational government seminar, the executive quickly found itself caught up in the health issue.
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During the new Defense Council, Emmanuel Macron studied the different options on the table: the status quo with adaptation of the curfew schedule according to local situations, the extension of the curfew to 6 p.m. everywhere in France , or re-containment.
Gabriel Attal seemed to give a first clue: the Secretary of State indicated that the virus was circulating less quickly in the departments where the curfew begins at 6 p.m. than in the rest of France.
These first positive effects suggest that the government could favor this option, generalized to the entire territory.
The Prime Minister will announce the final arbitration late Thursday afternoon, during a new press conference surrounded by several members of his government.
Before this speech, the Prime Minister will go to Metz, then to Nancy, to follow the vaccination campaign.
It is on the latter that the end of Emmanuel Macron's mandate now largely depends.
