A hexagonal blues. The rebound of the Covid-19 epidemic “upsets morale” French people who “are not at all” in the presidential campaign which starts, estimated Emmanuel Macron, Tuesday, December 7, after a morning spent meeting the inhabitants of Vierzon (Cher). “We feel tired, people are very resistant but they are less positive than two months ago. We feel that [la nouvelle vague épidémique] boost morale “, he commented in front of some journalists, during an unexpected lunch in a road restaurant on the outskirts of Bourges.
“At the end of the summer, we had vaccinated to death, people said to themselves: ‘We’re going to end this’. And there, there is an endless day side. The fifth wave …”
Emmanuel Macronwhen traveling in the Cher
Compared to previous waves, vaccination however avoids closing the country, he argued. “I want things not to be closed. Each time, thanks to the vaccine, we scratch something: in October 2020, we had to close, then under curfew, then we were able to reopen and we had kept the curfew. In January 2021, we managed not to close again because we had the curfew. friendliness” only, he detailed.
As for the electoral campaign, “people are not at all in it, they are in the sanitary, in the economic, that strikes me”, he continued, while during his walkabout he was hardly questioned about the presidential election which is being held in four months. “People do not enter the election until February-March”, he stated as a generality, adding that this campaign is taking place against a background of “somewhat exceptional phenomenon”.
“We must not underestimate what we have lived, what we are still going through. We must keep voluntarism, I find that there is. People want to project themselves”, he commented. “The public and citizen debate is being organized. It is a good thing. Democratic life will take its course. But there are also daily emergencies which dictate their law.”