The President of the Republic stated that “2022, perhaps, will be the year of exit of the epidemic”, during his speech of greetings to the French, Friday, December 31. Not yet candidate for the April presidential, he boasted his assessment and specified that he counts “serve” the country.
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He thought he could quickly turn the page of this epidemic. And leave his clothes of “crisis president”, in order to project the country toward a more rosy horizon. But after having pronounced vows in 2018, in full mobilization of “yellow vests”, then in 2019, at the moment when the contestation of the reform of the pensions was filled, the head of state was forced, as in 2020, to grant the COVID-19 epidemic a central place, during its wishes to the French for 2021, Friday 31 December.
“Hope is there,” wanted Emmanuel Macron a year ago, after ten months of epidemic, alluding to the beginnings of the vaccine campaign, which he asked his Government to accelerate, that the health crisis would continue to “at least until spring”. Twelve months later, the verdict is cruel: after three successive epidemiological waves, the President of the Republic remains emburred in the management of this crisis, which has lasted for almost two years and looks like a “endless day”. No more questions, therefore, to evoke a rapid crisis exit. “2022, perhaps, will be the year of exit of the epidemic,” he said this time dropped, cautious, during a speech of about ten minutes. “The coming weeks will be difficult. The virus circulates and circulates even more,” he warned, during this speech held, with the Garden of the Elysée and his fountains in the background.
The fault of delta variants and especially Omicron, whose dazzling progression has shown the hopes to finish quickly with the epidemic. To the point of installing a sense of gloom in French society as the crisis continues, with its lot of hassle of everyday and more serious, the dead that multiply in hospitals. Not to mention that the multiplication of contaminations – which have reached the record level of 232,000 new cases, the last twenty-four hours – and the addition of the sick leave they entail threaten to paralyze the activity of the country. Many economic sectors “will again undergo the consequences” of this epidemic renewed, and several “disorganized”, admitted Macron, with regret.
Despite this sullen context, the head of state has endeavored to highlight its assessment, less than four months of the presidential election, first defending its management of the health crisis. While caregivers criticize him for putting in place insufficient measures to avoid saturation of hospitals, and that his political opponents accuse him to introduce “liberticides” rules, he claimed his will to take ” Proportionate measures “, saying” do everything “to” minimize restrictions “. One way to value its equilibrium line, which consists of hardening the device at the margin to curb the progression of the virus, without going so far as to create too radical restrictions (such as a confinement, a curfew or the closing of the schools ), so as not to paralyze the country. No question of getting unpopular within four months of the presidential election, while he remains at the top of the voting intentions of the next ballot.
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