Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Laura Laplaud
07:09, September 12, 2022modified to
9:36 a.m., September 12, 2022
What’s really going on in your headEmmanuel Macron ? Since his re-election on April 24, the head of state is struggling to regain the momentum of the first five-year term. Absence of a state of grace, relative majority in the National Assembly, at the Elysée, visitors wonder regarding the morale of the president, at a time when crises are piling up. According to several relatives, Emmanuel Macron no longer has the combativeness he had a few months ago.
A form of mental wear?
To characterize the state of mind of the president, a heavyweight in the government speaks of a form of mental wear and tear, a consequence of his loss of political capital. “He is no longer in it”, sums up this confidant of the head of state. He who loved to convince so much, craftsman of the great debate in 2019 in response to the demonstrations of the “yellow vests”, would thus be tired of his trips to the French, whom he considers unappreciative of him.
Even the councils of ministers would no longer have his favors. “Listening to his ministers speak, it fed him,” even cowardly a member of the government, to the point that Emmanuel Macron confided, in a tone of lightness, to wonder regarding the usefulness of this weekly meeting.
His adrenaline, he finds it more than ever in crisis management, the only way to leave a trace of his second term, since the center of gravity of power moved to the National Assembly.
“Basically, Marine Le Pen will eventually pass”
Not easy indeed to pass from an absolute and disciplined majority to a relative majority, which no longer hides its desire for autonomy. Freedoms also granted to the claimants to his succession: Bruno the Mayor, Gerald Darmanin or Edouard Philippe. Yet all indebted to the conductor Macron, they no longer hesitate to play their own score for 2027.
Emmanuel Macron surprisingly let it go, more concerned regarding the rise of Marine Le Pen. “Basically, it will eventually pass,” he confided, resigned, to those around him. The President of the Republic is already thinking regarding what to do next. One of his relatives can imagine him launching, following 2027, a foundation for Europe or the climate.
