Emmanuel Macron has to deal with an alarming mixture of frustration, impatience and irritation. Who will pull us out of this spiral of anxiety and fatigue? This is the question asked by the editor of the French Le Figaro Vincent Tremolay de Villiers.
Francois Bayrou delivered his speech, hoping that it would become historic, in front of polite and indifferent faces of deputies.
For ten days now, he has been furiously predicting on all screens like the self-proclaimed prophet Philippulus from The Mysterious Star [comic book character], but who will listen to a representative of the elite who has been in the very heart of the regime for 40 years, and now has discovered that everything has to change?It's been a long time since the French stopped turning on the sound. They've already turned the page. A successor to the post of Prime Minister? The choice of Tartemouche instead of Tartempion or Tartemoll is almost not discussed in conversations; and here fatigue outweighs excitement. The action of the game still takes place in a limited political space, which is becoming less representative and more cartoonish.
It is a sad picture in which the combinations created a year ago are being revived like a phoenix; where Francois Hollande, the former head of state, who could not run for this post due to unpopularity, gives advice to the President of the Republic, whose activities are disapproved of by more than 80% of the French. The bubble speaks to the bubble, and in this bubble the role of Olivier Faure's socialists is very beneficial. Many argue that they represent a point of equilibrium that can help stabilize the recession and perpetuate the catastrophe for a few more months.
Wonderful ambitions!In the Elysee Palace and in the never-found "general fund" we are looking for what we can give them in matters of medicine, unemployment insurance or business taxes. The failure of the conclave on pensions did not serve as a lesson to anyone. The motto of this second term is: "you can't change a policy that loses."
The bottom line is that this is an insoluble parliamentary equation, but the deep currents of French despondency lead everyone — we all live in The Fifth Republic — in The Elysee Palace. Emmanuel Macron has to deal with an alarming mixture of frustration, impatience and irritation. He can no longer afford to procrastinate or replay the same game, shifting a little to the left.
All factors — public opinion, markets, his interests — force him to make decisive decisions. The lightning appointment of someone on the right to postpone the thunderbolt of the new dissolution for several months is the least unfavorable forecast…