2023-04-23 06:00:45
Night falls on the Elysée Palace. This Monday, March 27, around twenty advisers and collaborators of the Head of State are invited for a working dinner, a few hours before a tenth day of mobilization against the pension reform. The street has been rumbling since the outbreak of 49.3 to have the text adopted, without a vote by the Assembly, which lowers the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
Around a seafood platter, Emmanuel Macron anticipates that a favorable decision from the Constitutional Council, expected on April 14, will rekindle the flames of anger. The presidential speech of March 22 did not calm the spirits. We must act. “If I were my adviser, I would advise myself…”he says, teasingly, in front of his communication strategist, Frédéric Michel, unfolding his tactics: return to the field to anticipate the eruption that he himself helped to create.
As April 24 approaches, the first anniversary of the start of his second five-year term, the President of the Republic has an obsession: to suggest that he is “bunkerized”, prevented by a social crisis with an uncertain outcome. We must not give substance to the criticisms of opponents who describe it as a “mad recluse in his palace”in the words of Boris Vallaud, president of the socialist group in the Assembly.
The “Giscard Syndrome”
The “Giscard syndrome” hovers. In 1974, the former senior civil servant had blown a wind of modernity after the Gaullo-Pompidolian era, ending his seven-year term as an isolated and disconnected man. Emmanuel Macron hears this rumor: he would decide alone, without consulting. The President of the Republic must submit “proof of the fire of opinion”supports a collaborator of the Head of State, theorizing the struggle for recognition, a concept of the German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas. “The worst would be indifference”explains the adviser. “A large part of the French are angry or desperatenotes the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on LCI on April 18. When you are in your office as minister or mayor, you are already imprisoned. Your office should be the field. »
Emmanuel Macron therefore leaves the Elysée. Ready to take blows from French people who say they no longer love him. After his trying visit to the Salon de l’agriculture on February 25, and his visit to the Hautes-Alpes, he went to the Notre-Dame de Paris site on April 14, without seeing the protesters who agitated before his arrival, from a barge, a banner “Neither 67 nor 64, retirement is 60 years old”. Five days later, here he is in Muttersholtz and Sélestat, in the Bas-Rhin, where he faces insults, boos and casserolades. In the Hérault, Thursday April 20, the prefecture prohibits “portable sound devices”, syears to be able to prevent demonstrators from banging on kitchen utensils and trade unionists from cutting off the power at the places of his visits. The President of the Republic seeks to purge the anger but gets bogged down in impossible dialogues. “You can’t convince people who don’t listen”he says, to Muttersholtz, implicitly recognizing a form of loneliness: “I’m not going to lie to you. We are not overwhelmed either by applications for sharing responsibilities. »
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