At the start of 2025, Emmanuel Macron is much more present in the French political landscape. Since the dissolution, the president has no longer holds the controllers of government policy, but he has obviously not renounced to be heard. Emmanuel Macron is trying to get a place in the national debate.
The president seeks how to find some influence. After a period during which he was forced to take distance, his entourage even theorized this posture with a formula: ” The president chairs and the government governs “, Emmanuel Macron has changed its strategy. His objective is today to try to remember the good memories of the French and he does so in a sometimes slightly unbridled way, even going so far as to criticize government policy. For example, when French athletes protested against budget cuts in their sector in a column, Emmanuel Macron provided them with support. A first spike against the choices of the Prime Minister followed a few days later by another projection: traveling in the north of France, he defended his pro-business policy which may be undermined by the increase in the Taxation envisaged to bring money into the boxes and fill the deficits.
Tiktok
We also saw Emmanuel Macron on Tiktok In a video published to respond to an influencer who complained of having been verbalized for paying for the toll with his phone. A very jupiterian concern carried by a president who has become spokesperson for the dissatisfied, without filter, perhaps a little too connected. This unusual episode surprised, even in his camp. “” Joker “ replied a early macronist asked to react on this video, which is part of a approach of rapprochement with the French still illustrated this week by a surprise visit and without the press in a small town in Aisne to go to The meeting of the inhabitants around a coffee. In the entourage of the president, we pack all this in a story: Emmanuel Macron would have the will to take care ” more and more everyday life “Of his compatriots” far from the protocol ».
How to go up the slope?
Does this strategy work? Not for the moment. Emmanuel Macron’s popularity rating never stops falling. Poorly engaged in 2022, after legislative elections which had allowed him to obtain only a relative majority, his second five -year period completely gathered with the dissolution that the French blame him for. But Emmanuel Macron is still looking for how to go up the slope.