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2023-07-29 11:30:00

At the end of July, the media and political bubble is still close to overheating. After weeks of waiting, it’s an understatement that the latest redesign has left many commentators unsatisfied. Example, this week, with the political journalist Laureline Dupont who lets out her weariness over her column in L’Express : “Here we are in a grotesque situation where the media are waiting, leafing through and commenting on the reshuffles that the president has scrupulously emptied of their substance and their interest”.

Is this situation of the excessive “spin doctor” who ends up going around in circles specific to the reign of Emmanuel Macron? At the end of the Holland five-year term, political commentators tended to relay the moods of either Matignon (Valls) or the Elysée (Holland) over and over once more, without noticing the rise in power of a certain Emanuel Macron.

But it’s in Point that Nicolas Baverez has the harshest words once morest the president, pointing his “confinement” et “his denial”, “lack of having the slightest solution to the existential crisis of France”. And the sentence falls, for the liberal essayist, this five-year term is “dead born”. Harsh words but which struggle to clarify the state of the political balance of power at the heart of the state. As if with the aid of panic, blindness seized the observers.

In the light of the police crisis, some point to the attempt to ” Rebellion “ of Gérald Darmanin, the Ministry of the Interior, suspected of taking revenge for not having been appointed Prime Minister. For these, the thing is understood: the King is naked, and Emmanuel Macron sees his power gradually dissolved in impotence and inaction.

Be careful, however, to take his wishes for realities. Because we have witnessed in recent days many role-playing games between different poles of macronie. And in this game, that of the little theater of the “human comedy” of politics (the president’s favorite expression), Emmanuel Macron continues to excel and, ultimately, to do as he pleases, in the face of appeals that appear increasingly paralyzed. Admittedly, the president is far from pulling all the strings, but he likes to ride the wave of “bordering the country”as a former macronist deplores, this strategy of the worst, this strategy of tension, in order to recover, in the end, its initial bet.

This week, the play was thus on several levels. The ball began with comments from the president himself regarding his former prime minister, Édouard Philippe, who might ” take over “ in 2027. Far from being an acknowledgment, as we know the disagreement between the two men, it is rather a real kiss of death, like the one that a certain Mélenchon had addressed to the young Ruffin a few months earlier.

Should we see a Mitterrandian inspiration for the two political leaders? Still, these words, heavily commented on, had been preceded by a trip, also heavily commented on, by Brigitte Macron to Le Havre. For his part, Édouard Philippe remained silent, contenting himself with posting the photos of this meeting on social networks, where we might see his tense smile in front of the First Lady.

The second episode took place this week with the meeting between Philippe and Borne. This time, the esteem between them is really “reciprocal”. This meeting is a way for the Prime Minister to comfort herself once morest their common enemy, Gérald Darmanin. The “team” Borne, Kohler, and Philippe therefore serve the ranks once morest a Minister of the Interior who appears for many freewheeling on the police file, but who is in fact instrumentalized by the Élysée once morest Édouard Philippe . This is how the president wanted to travel with his Minister of the Interior to the other side of the world even though the social networks, the police and the youth seemed in a state of incandescence.

On this last subject (the state of the country, of French society), the president preferred to remain silent. And as the popular adage reminds us, who doesn’t say a word, agrees. Again and once more, the strategy of tension. Because has Emmanuel Macron really abandoned all political ambition following 2027? Nothing is less sure. Let’s not forget: in 2017, few commentators were betting that this young president would stay for so long: “He’s here for ten years!” », predicted me yet a former support of Nicolas Sarkozy. Today, the same thinks that we are not done with this president. No offense to Nicolas Baverez.

Marc Endeweld.