Since the enactment of the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron has been at an impasse. To get out of it, the Head of State chose to return to the path of travel in France, which he had somewhat forgotten during the time of the parliamentary debate. And he set a deadline of one hundred days to restart the government machine. Despite this strategy, the reconquest of the French promises to be difficult for Emmanuel Macron.
For the moment, the divorce is consummated. And what Emmanuel Macron hears above all when he moves to France, it’s the sound of pots being banged by demonstrators to tell him that they don’t agree with his policy. At each announced visit of the president, a welcoming committee of protesters is there. This obliges him to organize surprise visits to have images of exchanges with the citizens without fuss.
After the pension reform, returning to contact with the French is not easy for Emmanuel Macron. He who wanted to get within reach shouting match “, also puts within reach of pans ». But a Renaissance deputy asserts that it is “ essestial “that he go and confront people and that we have to “burst the abscess” because there are many “ of animosity “. Emmanuel Macron will therefore continue. Until the summer, he wants to maintain the rhythm of his travels in the country, during these famous hundred days that he sold to the French.
100 days until July 14, deadline or cooling off period?
A bit of both and above all a way to save time in the hope that social protest, and pot concerts, will die out after the unions’ last stand against pension reform, during parades of May 1. A minister thus estimates that with the hundred days, the president ” bought time but that he doesn’t know what he’s going to do on July 15. Change government, Prime Minister? A deputy of the majority declares without qualms: ” It’s going to be very hard to turn the page. To be credible, the relaunch of the five-year term requires a reshuffle “. According to him, currently out of 42 ministers, there are only five who embody their portfolio.
The redesign, a miracle solution?
Not really because the main weakness of the President of the Republic is to have a relative majority and whatever the government, that will not change. Except to dissolve the National Assembly, which is unlikely. So the change of government team remains the most likely political initiative. But when ? Emmanuel Macron has prepared a first window of opportunity, at the end of the hundred days.
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