2023-04-24 12:00:05
DEager to purge the pension crisis, which has plunged him into unpopularity and risks paralyzing his mandate, Emmanuel Macron is carrying out the “Operation catharsis” that he designed at the Elysée. This requires media omnipresence, ad nauseam : saturate space to catalyze anger (“There is nothing worse than suppressed anger, it has to come out”explains the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, Stanislas Guerini), while creating a diversion.
After the crisis of “yellow vests”, the President of the Republic had launched the “great debate”, answering questions from elected officials, everywhere in France, for long hours, a (symbolic) way to reconnect with the country. Same thing for ten days but this time, without intermediaries: in the field, he multiplies the “little debates” (as the Minister of Industry, Roland Lescure, nicely theorized in the program “Dimanche en politique”, on France 3) in contact with the French, physically confronting the anger of this ” crowd “ (sic) which he had severely criticized.
Mr. Macron is just as active on the media front. On Sunday, he granted a river interview to the readers of the Parisian. No booming ads – he confirms wanting “launch a major ecological restoration project for our schools” – but it sweeps away all subjects (immigration, inflation, ecology, institutions, etc.), in order to show that beyond pensions, and the rejection that this reform continues to cause, life must go on. A “Daily President” Who “talk about everything with everyone”, praise his relatives.
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As an old hand, the mayor Les Républicains de Meaux, Jean-François Copé, is amused by this “skillful” sequence of “political communications”. If he deems it useful for “to bring down the tensions”, he fears that the Head of State will take the opportunity to put “in the freezer” The political life. “There are a lot of phrases, a lot of things in all directions, we’re going to do everything, redo everything… But, for a hundred days, nothing important will happen! »launched on April 20 on BFM-TV, the former minister, who wonders how Mr. Macron will be able to “manage the four years” which remain to him, so that these may be “useful”.
In fact, on several subjects – referendum, institutions, Universal National Service… – the President of the Republic remains unclear, indicating that he could either do or… not do. On others (inflation), he seems content with an observer role, predicting difficult days (“I’ll be honest, food prices, it’s going to be tough until the end of the summer”) but without announcing any immediate measures. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, must detail her roadmap on Wednesday.
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