Emmanuel Macron often pops up where you least expect him. But it also happens that we wait for the head of state and that he does not appear. At the end of May, it has been more than a month since the president was re-elected. And more than a month that the country has been held in suspense on the meaning that will be given to this second five-year term, which seems not to have started. The forties who, in 2017, had blown a wind of renewal over France, with the ambition of shaking up “ the castes »promised during his meeting in Marseille on April 16: “I have no desire to do five more years. No, I don’t want to do them on top of that, I want to completely overhaul them. I want it to be five years of complete renewal. »
Over the months leading up to the presidential election, paths were sketched out on the presidential line and the issues identified in the health, education and ecology sectors. Very quickly, the need to carry out the difficult pension reform was revealed. Everything, explained Emmanuel Macron, had to be orchestrated in a “new method” repeatedly announced.
But since then, nothing, or very little. On the evening of his victory, April 24, the head of state stuck to a unifying speech but without real depth. On the day of his inauguration, May 7, he made the oath to bequeath a more liveable planet and a more lively France”, suggesting that the designation of the future head of government would make it possible to know more about the trajectory taken. Three long weeks after the victory celebrated at the Champ-de-Mars, the former Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne was appointed to Matignon. Worse than disappointing, this appointment was predictable.
Emergence of a “Macron generation” or “between oneself”
The formation of the government that followed, replacing known figures from the previous five-year term in other ministries, would be, according to the Elysée, the mark of the emergence of a “Macron generation” and the sign of the search for an appeasement in continuity. For some of those close to the Head of State, she signs the persistence of a “between oneself”, as an ex-minister of Nicolas Sarkozy is annoyed, and concretizes the fear that this new five-year term is only the extension of the previous one.
The mandate begins without sparks. The promise of a resolutely green government, linked to the new prime minister’s responsibility to lead planning in this area, has already been scratched. The image of the two ministers supporting the tenant of Matignon, Amélie de Montchalin, who went through finance, in charge of ecological transition and territorial cohesion, and Agnès Pannier-Runacher, a former executive in the automotive sector, in energy transition, blunted the desired effect. These two profiles are little appreciated by defenders of the environment.
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