2023-05-19 15:00:02
Lhe “hundred days” are often a one-man affair. So Emmanuel Macron is everywhere. Threatened by quicksand, the President of the Republic embarked on a media ride, sowing announcements, shelling out promises. On the Serre-Ponçon lake to unveil the “water” plan itself (Hautes-Alpes, March 30), at the Louise-Michel college in Ganges (Hérault, April 20) to discuss the school’s construction sites before s seize the reform of the vocational high school in Saintes (Charente-Maritime, May 4), in Dunkirk (North, May 12) at the bedside of reindustrialization. At the rate of one or two trips a week, the Head of State multiplies the asides, gives long interviews (Challenges, L’Opinion and TF1 in six days) and publishes opinion pieces, for example in the Financial Times to boast of European sovereignty.
He repeats his mantras, health, school, ecological transition, attractiveness… Displays an obsession: to seize subjects of the daily life of the French, in particular of the middle classes… Barely a year after the presidential election , the time has already come to reconquest. “Our compatriots first want political efficiency. Trust comes back when people see that when the government says something, it changes our lives.”, he told L’OpinionSunday, May 14.
Between two speeches, his relatives sing the presidential gesture. Little by little, the Head of State would succeed in overthrowing the “chimera” of one “president prevented” by “casserolades”, in the words of one of them. Another describes a prime minister still entangled in her meetings with the unions when the head of state “reverse the situation”. Because the initial and unofficial objective of the “hundred days”, theorized during his speech at the Elysee Palace on April 17, was to turn the page on pensions. For a month, the President of the Republic has managed to loosen the noose, even if the shadow of the social crisis opened by this reform still hovers. Monday, May 15, from 150 to 200 demonstrators made noise near the Palace of Versailles where the Choose France summit was held, and the bill aimed at repealing the reform tabled by the group Freedoms, independents, overseas and territories continues to agitate the National Assembly.
Tensions with Matignon
Increasingly defiant of his Prime Minister, Mr. Macron has relocated to the epicenter. Ministers are asked to give priority to the Elysée. And the Elysée assumes by repeating that the Head of State “reap what he himself had sown” during his campaign or during trips in 2022, as when he had mentioned the “pact for teachers” in his speech from the Sorbonne, in Paris, on August 25, 2022, when he took up the theme of vocational high schools in Les Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée) on September 13, 2022, or when he received those responsible of the fifty most polluting industrial sites at the Elysée, on November 8, 2022. “He does not take the subjects, he highlights them and that creates an obligation to render accounts if ever it is not at the level of what he asked for”, summarizes the Elysée. A way therefore also to put his government back in working order around the presidential figure indebted to the French.
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