“I should have gotten more wet”: Emmanuel Macron found what stuck in this pension reform which does not pass, he said this Monday, April 24 to readers of the Parisian. His answer obviously makes you smile, but it says it all about French blockages, it is both revealing of our institutions and the personality of our presidents.
“The problem is that we are not alone”, confided in his time Nicolas Sarkozy, who was putting his hands in the dough for the drafting of a sub-amendment to a bill, convinced that in acting in this way, he gained more time than he lost – we are not inventing anything, it was a text on GMOs.
The debates on the Fifth Republic question the verticality of the system. THE top down is it necessary to escape immobility or has it become outdated in the age of participatory democracy and the sharing of responsibilities? Emmanuel Macron does not want to abolish the post of Prime Minister but makes the institutions responsible for his deletion during the debates on pensions (always the fault of others), when nothing prevented him from getting more involved.
His regrets today confirm something else: Emmanuel Macron suffers from the syndrome of the good student, persuaded to understand and do better than everyone else. The polls of the moment remind us that good students are not popular. Presidents have the right, and sometimes, in certain circumstances, the duty to be modest, even if history reminds us that this is rarely their first quality.