From struggling restaurant owners to worn-out nurses and minorities angry over police brutality, people across France want Macron to address their concerns
His office says Macron’s evening speech will focus mainly on the virus that has plunged France into its worst crisis since World War II: the gradual reopening process, the economic challenges ahead, and “strengths and weaknesses” in his government’s handling of the pandemic.He’s speaking just hours before France reopens its borders with European neighbours, and as Paris restaurants await news on when they can reopen in full.
Macron sent in the army to help and ordered strict lockdown measures that slowed the spread. But nearly 30,000 people have died, about half of them in nursing homes, and more than 150,000 have been infected. More than 200 new virus clusters have emerged since France started reopening May 11, according to the national health agency.At least 15,000 people demonstrated in Paris on Saturday, the latest in a string of French protests galvanized by George Floyd’s death in the U.S.
But government minister Sibeth Ndiaye – a close Macron ally and the most prominent black figure in current French politics – wrote an unusually personal essay Saturday in Le Monde calling for France to rethink its colorblind doctrine, which aims at encouraging equality by ignoring race altogether.
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