“Emmanuel Macron behaves as if he were again in the electoral campaign”

2023-05-23 06:00:23

TKings of different temporalities compete on the political scene still marked by the conflict over pension reform. The first, driven by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, aims to ward off the threat of a stalemate which surrounds the executive after four months of political and social tensions.

Ignoring the ambient vicissitudes, it is entirely turned towards the future. By straddling its favorite themes – supply policy, the reindustrialisation of the country, full employment, lower taxes –, adapting them to a priority target, the middle class, a category in which many French people fall , the Head of State behaves as if he were once again in an electoral campaign with the mission of projecting the French towards a better future.

The second temporality is that of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who, on the same level in daily life, must ensure the landing of the presidential speech in a hostile environment. The difficult resumption of contact with the unions, Tuesday May 16 and Wednesday May 17, shows all the difficulty of the task: counting on the state of weakness of the government, the inter-union dreamed of imposing a resumption of social dialogue on its conditions in highlighting in particular the conditionality of aid to companies according to their wage and environmental policy. The presidential speech, more social-liberal than social-democratic, sounds like an end of inadmissibility. It’s up to Elisabeth Borne to manage.

The third temporality is that of the left, which remains locked in the conflict over pensions, acting as if a possibility still existed of defeating the reform which nevertheless appears to be a thing of the past, since it was promulgated on April 15 after partial validation by the Constitutional Council. While everything is agitated around it, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) remains blocked on the deadline of June 8, day of examination of the bill tabled by the group Libertés, Indépendants, Outre- sea ​​and territories (LIOT) aimed at repealing the reform.

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The text has no chance of succeeding, for lack of a majority in the Senate, but the conditions of its examination in the National Assembly include a political issue to which it clings to continue a battle which has had the advantage of maintaining it. united: the government has the choice between giving free rein to the discussion, with the risk of being beaten at the time of the vote, and blocking the debate by judging unconstitutional a text of parliamentary origin which has the effect of eliminating 18 billion euros of resources. It is in this direction that the Prime Minister is heading, dedicated to the thankless role of lightning rod for the Head of State.

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