“A president on the move”

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2023-04-17 21:48:19

Vincent Tremolet de Villers. Le Figaro

THE FIGARO EDITORIAL – A simple speech, even placed under the patronage of Notre-Dame de Paris or Napoleon (remember that the hundred days ended very badly), cannot reverse such a critical situation.

The eternal return is not just a philosophical concept, it is also one of the feelings inspired by Emmanuel Macron’s years of power. Television at 8 p.m., the advisers who, in the hours preceding, distill the elements of language on the “new narrative” of the “sequence”, in the “grammar” imposed by the situation. And then the President of the Republic, half solemn, half empathetic, who “heard the anger” and promises a deliberation “without taboo” on work, the return of public order, a school that will change “at sight” and a health system “deeply rebuilt”. Without forgetting the persistent self-satisfaction for the balance sheet and always this illusion of circumventing the Parliament, by the democratic simulacra which are great debates, citizens’ conventions and CNR.

Promises already seen, already heard

Already seen, already heard, this story of the president who tells us that“together we have faced”. The Covid and the war in Ukraine erased it from our memories, but already in 2019, after the crisis…

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