Emmanuel Macron has chosen to communicate immediately on his positive screening for the coronavirus and which promises to take stock every day. But why is the health of presidents a political issue?
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From the Lanterne residence where he will be confined for seven days, at 5 p.m. this afternoon, Emmanuel Macron appears in the video header of this article. Nothing is left to chance, the flags are in a good place. He films himself, selfie style, in front of his work desk. The head of state who claims to continue to ensure current affairs.
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Monitoring provided by his personal doctor, Jean-Christophe Perrochon. It depends on the army service. A man whose images are very rare. Many call him the shadow of the president, but he’s not alone. “In general, they are 4. It is a team which allows to have a rotation 24 hours a day and all week. The President of the Republic is the President of the Republic, but he is also a man, and therefore he is a patient and that is a singular relationship “, reveals Pierre-René Lemas, former secretary general of the Elysee under François Hollande.
By publishing this press release on Thursday, the Elysee is playing the card of transparency, covid requires. However, during his campaign, interviewed by a specialized daily, Emmanuel Macron claims the right to medical confidentiality and does not undertake to publish an annual bulletin. It is an immutable rule of the Fifth Republic, the presidents do not like to expound on their health, even when they undertake to publish regular bulletins.
François Mitterrand and his cancer revealed in 1992 when he has been ill for years already. Jacques Chirac and his stroke in 2005. Finally, concerning Nicolas Sarkozy, if he communicates about a vagal discomfort, a throat operation will not be revealed until months later. Franck Louvrier, his communications advisor at the time, defended himself from all lies. “The lie will have existed from the moment his state of health disturbed his presidential action. In this case, it did not disturb him at all.” Torn between duty of transparency and taste for secrecy, difficult balance in the exercise of power. Emmanuel Macron has promised to give his news daily throughout his isolation.
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