2024-07-25 17:00:15
Two months ago, “the French president, livid but not dejected after the bitter battle for his reform of the pension law”, had promised that he would restore his government’s situation in 100 days of ambitious measures for employment, education and justice, recalls the publication, specifying that he wanted to “reconnect” with deep France, the “real” country, far from the metropolitan elite to which he himself belongs.
”But the point-blank shooting of a 17-year-old delivery man from Nanterre by police last Tuesday sparked anger and riots. These, after three days, seem likely to lead to a repeat in France of the summer of 2020 in the United States, after the murder of George Floyd: cities under virtual siege, a shift in tectonic plates, in which heated racial and social relations destroy whatever remains of the social pact for the majority of French people,” the same source added.
“If such a disaster occurs, Macron will have played a role in it,” insists the big draw. Forgetting the principle of the separation of powers, he hastened, without waiting for the results of the ongoing judicial interrogation of the two police officers involved, to publicly condemn the shooting and demand “swift justice,” it continues.
In other words, he responded to a potentially incendiary situation by fanning the flames, while appearing weak to extremist activists and politicians, the newspaper observed.
”His increasingly frequent forays into grand foreign policy are not popular in France. And as observers have pointed out from the start, the first Hundred Days was the time when Napoleon tried to reclaim his throne, after his escape from Elba at Waterloo: a bad omen for the man who tried to modernise Bonapartism in French politics,” concludes The Telegraph.
2024-07-25 17:00:15