The regrettable episode of the Agricultural Show, even if Emmanuel Macron did remarkably well by improvising a model “real people” debate, confirmed the atmosphere of the end of the reign born in 2022 from an absence of absolute majority in Parliament and therefore a total inability to reform our country. While the year 2017 had been the scene of an improbable and dazzling takeover of the French political landscape by the centrists, with the siphoning of the right and the left of government, the year 2022 was as could be expected. fear that of the consolidation of extremes.
It is a safe bet that 2027 will be marked by a major new political event: the implosion of macronism, thus signaling the closure of a political parenthesis victim of its own contradictions and limits. If there is one thing that citizens cannot tolerate, it is that democracy is synonymous with inefficiency. In this respect, the risk of the extreme right gaining power in France has never been so strong since 1958 at the time of the Algerian chaos. Especially since in these periods of doubt and unrest, many imagine themselves being able to take on the role of successor in the camp of the government parties. Thus, all the conditions are met for the day after the Olympic and Paralympic Games to begin the war of succession.
Deprived of solid ideological foundations and a natural replacement, the presidential party is destined to die slowly until 2027. An unsurprising decrepitude for a party tailor-made for its founder right down to the initials and which has failed to impose itself in ballots than in his presence. A party created to conquer power and not to reform the country sustainably. For Emmanuel Macron, the temptation to play on everyone’s jealousies will be great in order to maintain a semblance of influence in a carefully orchestrated mess: divide not to rule better but simply to reign a little longer. This would offer populist parties a boulevard towards the Elysée and condemn France to shipwreck.
A huge responsibility
In the ranks of the presidential majority, the wave of contenders for succession continues to grow. As he recently recalled, François Bayrou “does not exclude
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