MACRON SPEECH. This Wednesday, October 26, Emmanuel Macron will talk about the portfolio of the French and the reforms to come in an interview with France 2. He could also be questioned about the management of the health crisis.
[Mis à jour le 26 octobre 2022 à 10h02] After a very professorial Emmanuel Macron with a peremptory speech two weeks ago, will we see a destabilized Emmanuel Macron this Wednesday, October 26? France 2 is organizing a new one-hour interview today at 8:30 p.m. The Head of State must talk about the daily life of the French people: inflation, wages, energy prices, security… The journalist Caroline Roux, facing the President, will have the delicate mission of questioning him on all these subjects in a short time. of time. Especially since 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. In addressing this theme, Caroline Roux could evoke 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 was hoping for: impossibility of having appointments, no serious awareness, feeling of having been listened to with great lightness. The President of the Republic could well be put in difficulty on these revelations.
Macron interviewed on a laborious start to his five-year term
The Head of State will also have to take stock of the areas he intends to develop for the country’s next reforms. Emmanuel Macron must explain how he intends to modify the financing of pension schemes 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 will also have to defend the line of the executive.
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.
A word on the Lola case?
The Head of State should also be questioned on how he intends to concretely engage the country more in the energy transition and the measures that 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. First the death of young Lola, which occurred in Paris on October 14: 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 French extreme right. A statement from the President of the Republic on the subject is expected, in particular on the foundations of the rule of law, at a time when populist and demagogic considerations are interfering in the subject.