“I don't know if he took a risk.
But he showed humility, ”slices bluntly a close friend of Emmanuel Macron, the day after the presidential mea culpa on vaccines.
Wednesday evening, while responding to Greek television, the head of state for the first time publicly admitted that Europe had not gone "fast enough, strong enough" to order sufficient stocks.
And even, comparing itself to the United States, which have already vaccinated a quarter of the population since December, to have "lacked ambition".
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An admission all the more resounding that on Wednesday also, on the other side of the Rhine, it was Angela Merkel who engaged in the same exercise of repentance.
And in an even more cash way since she squarely asked, facing the camera, "forgiveness" from her fellow citizens, after announcing two days earlier a reinforced confinement for the Easter weekend.
"An error must be recognized as such and above all, it must be corrected", declared the Chancellor in a solemn address.
By pressing even where it hurts: “This mistake is only mine.
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"The key is transparency"
“It just goes to show that the Franco-German couple still works just as well!
», Comments, hilariously, a minister by discovering the concomitance of these two declarations which are, moreover, completely fortuitous since the interview of Emmanuel Macron had been recorded the day before.
But a choice that the Elysée takes on without difficulty: “The key is transparency.
Say what we do, do what we say.
Also say when we failed ", slice an adviser, recalling that the president had already done the same a year ago, on April 13, during his fourth speech, when he had declared that" the moment had revealed faults ”.
“Faced with a crisis of such magnitude, unprecedented, everyone understands that there is trial and error, a system of constraints.
We must say them, never conceal them, ”sinks the Palace which specifies that the televised mea culpa of Emmanuel Macron, repeated this Thursday in all the European press, was not prepared.
Politically effective?
“Angela Merkel can apologize, but she's not taking any risks.
She is at the end of her term, she has nothing to look for.
With us, it is more sensitive ”, deciphers a strategist of the macronie, for whom the exercise is nevertheless beneficial because it reveals a part of humility, and therefore of sincerity.
Especially since Macron, him, is not at his first admission since the start of the five-year term: "There are sentences that I regret", he confided on April 25, 2019, after the yellow vests crisis.
"I probably made mistakes," he agreed on July 14, about his image.
Translation of an LREM deputy: “It doesn't erase them with a magic slate.
But at least he has the merit of saying it ... "