2023-06-21 16:16:00
The daily Le Monde devoted, on Wednesday, a column, yet another, to President Emmanuel Macron, where he returns to these “risky behavior”of which he is a victim, and which caused him to fall “in the abyss of unpopularity, less than a year following his re-election”.
Under the title “the springs of an improbable comeback”the publication points out that the “hundred days”announced by the Head of State the day following the promulgation of the very unpopular pension reform as a challenge to move forward, were a “decoy”.
Ces “hundred days” did not directly concern Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, as they applied to the Head of State himself, “forced to wet his shirt to keep his hands free as long as possible”writes Le Monde, noting that since mid-April, Emmanuel Macron has been trying “the last chance comeback”.
Recalling that this is certainly not the first time that Emmanuel Macron’s relationship with the French has deteriorated, columnist Françoise Fressoz believes, however, that the political context this time is still “more disturbing” that during the movement of “yellow vests”pointing to the contested institutional functioning with the controversy triggered by the use of Article 49.3 to push through the pension reform.
“To those seriously burned by politics, it is usually advised not to expose themselves directly and to put the pedal soft on the reforms. Emmanuel Macron did just the opposite“, still notes the chronicle.
She also points out that if since mid-April, the Head of State has been everywhere (in factories, vocational schools, at the Choose France summit, at VivaTech, at Le Bourget, in the newspapers, etc.), “ready to speed up all the reforms that prepare the future”, this overexposure constituted an undeniable risk-taking, especially at the beginning, when the casserolades organized by the left kept the anger intact on the ground.
The main issue of “hundred days” was to erase this period of the beginning of the second term with a head of state who appeared disoriented, notes the author of the column, considering that following a presidential campaign dominated by tactical blows intended to weaken the right and counter progress of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Emmanuel Macron struggled to give a clear direction to his second term.
For Le Monde, following the much criticized pension reform, the proclaimed objective of full employment had little chance of hitting the mark in public opinion if it was not accompanied by more inclusive gestures, noting that a little Less than a month before the July 14 deadline, speculation around the next ministerial reshuffle fairly faithfully describes the position of the Head of State, who is far from having reconstituted his game.
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