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“Pragmatic, proportionate and regional” is the new formula with which French Prime Minister Jean Castex is trying to make the closure of the third party acceptable to part of the population. Starting Friday night, new rules will apply to 16 French departments, especially in the northeast of the country, which aim to slow the spread of the pandemic. Due to incidence values of almost 400 or more, Paris and the surrounding area are also affected, and the Alpes-Maritimes, the region bordering Italy, is the only department in the south of the country.
President Emmanuel Macron had already announced in advance that he wanted to “reinvent” the blockade. People around the president said that under no circumstances did he want to allow a “dictatorship of scientists and medical professionals.” “Acceptability” has become his most important criterion, a nasty word, but one that can be used to describe a mixture of acceptability, approval, and appropriateness.
