2023-04-27 04:00:10
CIt was six years ago, it was a century ago. Emmanuel Macron, president not even in his forties, walked triumphantly in the courtyard of the Louvre, in Paris, to the sound ofOde to Joy, by Beethoven. Claiming to be social-democratic, the former colt of François Hollande, who passed through Bercy before embarking on the race for the Elysée, was elected on May 7, 2017, with the idea of blowing over France a “spirit of conquest” – the first words of his programmatic booklet. Pro-European, pro-business, professing to be neither right nor left, the former economy minister advocated the “to liberate, to protect”to which he would add, a year later, a third word, ” bind “.
Six years later, the comparison is painful. The pension reform has brought hundreds of thousands of French people to the streets and transformed the National Assembly into a cauldron. Figure for part of the country of an authoritarian power and deaf to their true aspirations, subject of perplexity on his program even among his historical voters, unable to give a clear impetus following his quinquennium, the “Macron 2022” seems worn , capless, isolated.
And it is not only the demonstrators, the unions or the opposition who say so, but also relatives and figures of the original macronism. Like the deputy (Renaissance) Sacha Houlié, who admits ” disappointed “. “In 2017, we were elected on two elements which are now overturned. First, the idea that work emancipates, but for many French people it has become an effort, almost a pain. Then, a message of hope – to create, to undertake -, but today, people are afraid: of the climate crisis, of inflation… We have never really responded to the crisis of the “yellow vests”, which pointed to the mismatch between the end of the world and the end of the month”analyzes the man who was co-founder, in 2015, of the Les Jeunes movement with Macron and national delegate of the presidential party when it was launched in 2016.
“A crisis of legitimacy”
“It’s complicated to talk regarding emancipation through work when the relationship to work has changed, when people get up early and have trouble making ends meet”, abounds this framework of the majority, which was part of the campaign team of the president, six years ago. While acknowledging “economic difficulties for this start of the second term” − such as the war in Ukraine, which largely monopolized the candidate Macron during the 2022 campaign −, she believes that the majority “has not sufficiently taken note, in [ses] public policies, transformations of the country between 2017 and 2022”. And to cite the deterioration of public services, in particular health, revealed by the crisis linked to Covid-19, but also the return of inflation or the need for increased collective protection in relation to globalization.
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