The Prime Minister speaks. Thursday April 2, 2020, Edouard Philippe will address the French in a prime-time broadcast on TF1, entitled Prime Minister facing the crisis. The objective? “A special evening […] to take stock of the major health crisis the country is going through with the coronavirus.” In a duplex at the Hôtel de Matignon, Edouard Philippe will answer questions from Gilles Bouleau, who will be accompanied by several health specialists. It must be said that with the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner and the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, Edouard Philippe, on the front line of the fight against the coronavirus, has become one of the faces of this crisis in the 'Hexagon, with the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron. In its edition of the day, The Parisian devotes an article to him. Edouard Philippe discovers "hell" of Matignon, announces the title. And the chapô to specify: “On the front line facing Covid-19, Prime Minister, "in a dark mood" according to his relatives, does not take offense at opposition attacks and knows that he can be made a fuse after the crisis. ” Result: it is said to be nervous, stressed, on the nerves. Exchange.
"A man who has become" dark "," very black ""
“In the closed session of the majority's telephone breakfast, the war metaphor grabbed everyone”, begin our colleagues Thursday April 1st. "When a soldier has to drop a bomb, if he is told in flight that he is going to go to court martial because he missed his target to the nearest meter, he will go around eight times!", irritated Edouard Philippe. ‘The threats of commissions of inquiry are very badly received by the ministers and directors of administration. ‘A senior official must not have a shaking hand, otherwise he does not make the right decisions,’ he continued, ‘tired and annoyed’ of all his relatives. In its viewfinder: the opposition. " Yet it is not his political adversaries that he would want the most, but that which, before the fiasco of the Griveaux affair in the municipal elections, was concerned with health in his government. The reason ? His explosive statements to the newspaper The world. The daily continues: "More than his original political family, it is his former minister, Agnes Buzyn, that the Prime Minister would blame for having sounded the hallali. ‘His statements hurt him very much. I would even say more than legal threats ’confides a minister. Those who rub shoulders with him at Matignon or call him describe a man who has become "dark", "very black", more silent than ever. ”
Wednesday April 1, questioned by the fact-finding mission of the National Assembly, Edouard Philippe announced to study "The opportunity, the feasibility of a deconfinement regionalized, subject to a testing policy, based, who knows, on age groups. ” No decision has been made yet.
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