MACRON SPEECH. This Wednesday, October 26, Emmanuel Macron is the guest of “L’Evenement”, the political program of France 2.
France 2 gives the floor to Emmanuel Macron again this evening, two weeks after a first version of the program “L’Evénenement” which was already devoted to him. The Head of State must take advantage of this interview, at 8:30 p.m., to talk about the high cost of living and the daily life of the French: inflation, wages, energy prices, security… Journalist Caroline Roux, facing the President, has the delicate mission of interrogating him on all these subjects in a short time. This interview can be followed live on France 2 and on the continuous news channel Franceinfo. This media is broadcast on channel 27 of TNT, but is also broadcast on video platforms, such as Youtube, to be found here:
France 2 has indicated that it wants to question the Head of State on the state of hospitals and on the alerts sent by health professionals. On this theme, it is difficult for the journalist not to come back to the allegations of Agnès Buzyn, published in Le Monde. The former Minister of Health told the newspaper how she experienced the arrival of the Covid-19 epidemic in France; she says in particular that she alerted Emmanuel Macron several times, between January and March 2020, to the eminently dangerous nature of the virus and the lack of preparation of health structures in France. The former Minister of Health revealed above all that she did not have the answers she hoped for: impossibility of having appointments, no serious awareness, feeling of having been listened to with great lightness.
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Macron interviewed on a laborious start to his five-year term
The Head of State has the opportunity during this interview on France 2 to take stock of the axes he intends to develop for the next reforms of the country, with two hot points: the way in which he intends to modify the financing of the regimes pensions and the unemployment benefit system. While the government has decided to resort to the very unpopular article of 49.3 to have the 2023 budget and the social security finance plan adopted, Emmanuel Macron knows that the executive is very exposed.
The political turmoil in the National Assembly and the regular outcry – to which the French had become unaccustomed – illustrate both the difficulty for the government of Elisabeth Borne to implement executive policy effectively and the inability to our institutions to bring out the lines of consensus, of compromise, since an absolute majority is no longer acquired by the Head of State. Emmanuel Macron, lucid on these questions, had promised “new methods” of governance, less vertical, with more consultations, but has not yet found solutions. The National Council for Refoundation, supposed to give voice to intermediate bodies and citizens, on a dedicated website, is a flop. While a new lease of life emerged from the first five-year term, launched with the “work” ordinances, Emmanuel Macron’s second term begins with a loss of breath. The France 2 interview can, in this sense, give the president the opportunity to energize the start of his five-year term without direction.
Security, a sensitive subject
The Head of State wants to engage the country more in the energy transition: but then, what measures could structure his five-year term on this issue? A subject is also essential in the common thread of the interview with Emmanuel Macron on France 2 this Wednesday, October 26. That of security and respect for the law. The death of young Lola, which occurred in Paris on October 14, moved the country and the investigation pointed to the fact that the main suspect was under an obligation to leave French territory, which outraged part of the right and the extreme right in France. The President of the Republic is not insensitive to the subject, in particular on the foundations of the rule of law, at a time when populist and demagogic considerations are interfering in the subject.