2023-09-01 12:04:25
Emmanuel Macron during his speech by videoconference, during the Medef summer university, on August 28, 2023, at the Longchamp racecourse, in Paris. OLIVIER LABAN MATTEI/MYOP FOR “THE WORLD”
At night, the “salon des princes” of a former royal abbey, telephones prohibited, left in lockers at the entrance… Beyond the spectacular, almost romantic dimension of a carefully staged event, which Will there remain “Saint-Denis Meetings”, during which Emmanuel Macron dialogued behind closed doors with party leaders, for twelve hours, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday? Obviously, it is first of all a performance: from La France insoumise to the National Rally (RN), all the guests came and stayed, until 3:15 a.m., submitting to the agenda and at the pace of the President. Even praising, for some, the quality of the exchanges, far from the excesses of a fragmented and radicalized Parliament. For Mr. Macron, who had failed to “appease” society at the end of its failed “hundred days” (both empty and eventful, marked by urban riots), this sequence which “product of appeasement”according to the Elysée, is therefore welcome.
Basically, these Meetings are a chemically pure compendium of the Macronian gesture. Faithful to what he has always worn, the Head of State wanted to demonstrate that it is still possible to go beyond the labels and the enclosing postures, which lead, according to him, to blockage and impotence. In the President of Saint-Denis, there was a bit of the Macron of 2015, when, Minister of the Economy, he sought to draw parliamentarians from all sides behind his bill for growth, activity and equal economic opportunity. “War of position becomes war of movement, he theorized then, things move, people end up thinking… I saw debates open up. »
Macronism was forged in this conviction that it is possible to transform by building project majorities, in the service of a supposed general interest. In Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), the goal could not be so ambitious, but it obeyed the same logic, in an attempt to defuse political reflexes to produce a shared diagnosis on a certain number of major subjects, in order to to try to ward off the impotence that threatens the system at a time marked by tragedy and urgency (return of classic wars, emancipation of capitalist forces from political power, rise of populism, untraceable martingale of ecological transition…). “The idea was not to find lukewarm water compromises, but to force everyone to get out of postures and confront reality, to share the constraint”summed up, Thursday evening, an Elysian adviser.
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