Where is Emmanuel Macron going in his new five-year term? The question keeps coming up lately. In turn Jupiterian president, crisis president, he is looking for his marks in the face of worried French people and a majority who no longer have their finger on the seam of their pants.
In the majority, when we talk about the difficulty in seeing what course Emmanuel Macron wants to give to his new five-year term, we have two types of response. The first, in the official line, is to say but finally of course that there is a course and a new method with the National Council for Refoundation, without developing too much all the same.
And then there are those who respond by talking about what should be done as if it were an ongoing process, as if the bricks were falling into place and at the end there would be a house. But which house? What loyal macronists want is for it to look like the one the French bought off-plan in 2017. Like this MP, at the heart of the reactor of the first campaign, who thinks aloud and declares: “ We must remain on the invariants of macronism, the strong economy, attractiveness, fiscal stability… and protect not only through individual but also collective emancipation “. The key word for her is ” work “. ” I work therefore I exist sums up one of his colleagues in the National Assembly. You have to understand that this is a message that can give meaning to the five-year term.
New out of old
It would be like making something new out of something old. But the atmosphere is not really one of renewal shock after a presidential election where Emmanuel Macron hardly campaigned for re-election. And a thirty-year-old Renaissance deputy draws the conclusion that in fact, the voters voted for him when they had no other solution that suited them. In other words, not because he made them want to want with him. ” He has to tell the French, I need you… If you support me, that’s what you’ll get “, he adds. A statement without emotion. The time of idolatry, when Emmanuel Macron was untouchable, has passed. The president has to deal with more critical troops who are waiting for momentum.
The ” at the same time » a little lame
Emmanuel Macron had an opportunity to restart the machine with a television interview this week. Except he didn’t say, ” Help me to the French but rather: Help me to the Republicans. In the absence of momentum, the Head of State indicated what political alliance he wanted in the Assembly by stigmatizing the Nupes and the National Rally which voted together for a motion of censure. A clarification that makes the “ at the same time “. As a course, Emmanuel Macron called for a political compromise with the right.