2023-06-02 12:00:00
THE SHARP OPINION – There was a storm in the air this Tuesday around the cabinet table. Obviously, the Head of State was not in a playful mood, and the Prime Minister paid the price.
Practicing old-fashioned politics, Elisabeth Borne had taken advantage of the long Pentecost weekend to bring out of the drawer the old hackneyed recipes of the left giving lessons, and forgetful of its past: isn’t it the Chamber of Deputies? of the Popular Front which had voted full powers to Marshal Pétain?
Never mind ! The Rassemblement national took its full rank with the assimilation to Pétain, which had already been used by this same left against Nicolas Sarkozy, when he had the idea of organizing a meeting at the Trocadero, one day of May 1, during the interval between the two rounds of the 2012 presidential election.
But there ! In the new world, Emmanuel Macron is the only one who knows and can shake the scarecrow of the “Everything but Le Pen”which has so far guaranteed success in the second round of the presidential election.
If we are to believe the dispatches from agencies, the President of the Republic thus declared: “The fight against the far right no longer involves moral arguments. You will not be able to make millions of French people who voted for the far right believe that they are fascists”.
“He said, adds a witness, that it was necessary to stop with the attacks of the 1990s, because it was no longer working”. In this case, the form is just as shocking as the content.
Ordinary – but are we in ordinary times in Macronie? -, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister meet before the Council of Ministers. If it seems normal that the Head of State can then make observations to the Prime Minister in the secrecy of his office, it is obviously much less so that he does so around the council table. ministers.
And it is even more surprising, and unprecedented as to the “level of violence” mentioned in the press, that the reframing of a head of government be immediately made public.
Doubt is no longer possible, or else it is to understand nothing. The days of Madame Borne at Matignon are well and truly numbered and, for her, this council of ministers had everything of a disciplinary council. As it happened under the previous Republics, Madame Borne gives the impression of taking care of her exit: she chose to fall on the left, where she was born in politics.
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