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Confinement postponed: the secret story of Macron's surprise decision

2021-01-31T19:55:51.318Z


STORY - Despite the strong threat of an epidemic rebound, the Head of State still hopes to be able to avoid putting the country under cover again.


It'll do just fine.

It is already 7:30 p.m. Friday evening when the Defense Council ends.

We must warn the French.

Explain to them what the President of the Republic has decided after a week of suspense on the establishment of a third confinement.

The threat of a rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic is strong, especially since the appearance of mutants of the virus, more contagious, perhaps even more dangerous.

The country expects the worst.

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Jean Castex has very little time to write his declaration.

Especially if he wants to have a chance "

to hang on to the 20 hours

" - according to the expression used for the evening television news -, and capture the interest of the French before the weekend.

The Prime Minister and his chief of staff, Nicolas Revel, do not even take the time to leave the Murat lounge where the Sanitary Defense Council took place.

On the table around which the confidential one-and-a-half-hour meeting was held, the two men take their pens.

they have

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Source: lefigaro

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