Emmanuel Macron, isolated by the release, tried to reconnect with his representatives

2024-07-25 19:14:47

Emmanuel Macron, at the Louvre carousel, July 25, 2024. ANDRE PAIN / Via REUTERS

The two men saw each other. All the same. This Thursday, July 25, it was 11 am when Gabriel Attal crossed the steps of the Elysée for one of the last weekly tête-à-têtes with Emmanuel Macron. The relationship between the outgoing Prime Minister and the Head of State has been polar since they were dissolved on June 9, and Matignon’s tenant has not been. But “We must make the State work”, we mourn the rue de Varenne. And prepare for it later.

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On the first floor of the Elysée, the ruling couple discussed the “action agreement” that the president is preparing behind the scenes to try to gather representatives from the opposition parties (on the right, initially) to the presidential camp in order to form a new the majority Emmanuel Macron imagines the appointment of a new Prime Minister, showing a political agreement from mid-August. A chimera?

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On the right, Laurent Wauquiez, leader of the representatives of the Republican right, left his thoughts and pointed to his red lines (specifically denying any tax increase) but he explained that participation in a possible coalition government is not out of the question. On the left, the New Popular Front (NFP), claims victory after the legislative elections and wants to extend its program (including the reconstruction of the wealth tax) like its Prime Minister, Enarque Lucie Castets.

A “way” is possible

Regardless of these incompatibility. A “way” possible, emphasized Emmanuel Macron to those around him. No one dares to oppose the will of the President of the Republic. But “I don’t see how all this can happen in two weeks”whispers someone close to Gabriel Attal.

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At a time when France “hello world” for the Paris Olympics, the city’s leader appears isolated, caught in a crisis of his own making. A few hours before the opening ceremony, the Elysée still does not know whether the tenant of Matignon will sit on the banks of the Seine in the presidential stand, next to Emmanuel Macron, or a little further back, with members of the government that resigned. . “In any case, the Prime Minister has called”assured the Elysian counselor, to remove possible doubts.

The solution is the number of outgoing seats per hundred. Realizing that he has offended some of his people and that he has lost his aura, the head of the city has been inviting representatives to lunch in fifteen groups at the presidential palace since the middle of July. Between the two Olympic Protocol commitments, the President once again brought together, on Wednesday July 24, a small group of elected officials around a fish dish. Rare attention since 2017. And a revolution in the president’s human resource management. A follower of “Darwinism”, the tenant of the Elysée had, until now, little concern about public reaction. “ Emmanuel Macron, put you in the water and see if you reach the other shore. You like ‘warriors’ that’s how you see it, you have to face it”noted a few weeks ago in private, the former Secretary of State for Educational Equity, Marlène Schiappa.

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