The return of the boss. Those who saw Emmanuel Macron be absorbed by international crises and without the desire to weigh on the French scene, still beaten by the fiasco of the dissolution of the dissolution last summer, are at the expense. Since the beginning of July, the Head of State has multiplied very political speeches.
“Remember that it is not that Foreign Minister, but also Head of State and that if everyone could do their job, the country would be much better,” Judovic deputy judges Ludovic Mendes to BFMTV.
Rethinking of your prime minister
Last Thursday, the president seemed to be back on the dance floor, after weeks trying to advance the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, between Israel and Hamas and between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
The first to pay the price of this revival is the Head of Government, François Bayrou, and its Interior Minister Bruno Retilleau. “The prime minister had to lead his government,” said Emmanuel Macron this Thursday, visiting producers in Roquefort in Aveyron.
“Each minister must deal with the cases for which he is appointed,” he said, presenting himself as “the guarantor of this.” “We must discipline the speech.”
“A chef should cheffer, too bad if Bayrou didn’t understand it”
The issue of the anger of the president of the president: a particular signed platform by Bruno Retilleau to request the “public subsidy” stop for wind and photovoltaic panels, exactly the opposite of what the presidential camp has been launched since he came to power in 2017.
Matignon’s tenant did not want to react after the launch of his lieutenant. And pity if Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the minister in charge of the ecological transition, denounced for his part “Populism” by Bruno Retailleau.
“We are not going to blame Macron for fighting so as not to unravel everything he has done for the environment. He should depend on the prime minister.
Do not fade
Two days later, it was not the ecology that led Emmanuel Macron to speak, but a meeting of young people in motion (former “young people with Macron”). Guest of his event, the head of state called his troops this Saturday to “action” instead of personal ambitions by 2027.
The message has the merit of clarity by attacking Gabriel Attal, who took a new step for the presidential elections before the activists, but also to his former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, officially in the race for months. It also means that Emmanuel Macron intends to invest in the next presidential elections and, therefore, should officially support a candidate.
The head of state, who cannot do more than two consecutive terms, even seemed to open the door to a possible candidacy in 2032. “I need you (you) for two years, during five years, for ten years,” said Emmanuel Macron.
“Chasse the natural, returns to the gallop,” a elected official who attended the meeting smiles.
“The Swan Song”
“I never believed that the president is being disintegrated today or tomorrow what is happening in the country. It is his personality who wants that,” Ambroise Méjan, the president of young people in motion, shares for his side.
After having made clear this weekend that he would still have to count on him, the head of state has once again done an act of authority on Monday. The president summoned several ministers, including Bruno Retailleau to a Defense Council to fight against the Muslim Brotherhood.
Last May, during a meeting in the same format, the president had bothered that the new head of the right action gifts even before his appointment in the Elysée. The solutions presented by the Minister of the Interior had not convinced him either. Therefore, the appointment was made to make it better.
“We know that there is a desire for Emmanuel Macron to say that it is not over yet. Actually, it is the swan song,” said Stéphane Lenormand, president of the Liot group. “Actually, he only has a weapon, it is dissolution.”
Boomerang risk
Difficult to demonstrate that it is wrong: a year after the second round of the legislative elections, the head of state can now press the dissolution button again. If the calculation seems unlikely at the moment, it is not impossible if François Bayrou fell into autumn on the state or social security budget.
The president also follows the search for the necessary 40 billion euros, which must be revealed by François Bayrou on July 15, very closely. Until the moment of receiving in particular the Minister of the Economy, Éric Lombard and his colleague in the Amélie de Montchalin budget this Monday for lunch. The question of a white year must be on the table, as well as the possible end of the reduction of taxes for retirees. At the risk of doing too much, while in the end it will be the deputies who will have the last word.
“The strategy is risky. If in the end, Bayrou falls and that we have no budget, we can tell him that he did not do the job. He is stronger than him, but it will be better to stay out of all this. He only has blows to take,” annoy a Renaissance senator.
Despite his retirement in the French scene, Emmanuel Macron’s popularity qualification has never stopped falling. In June, it only collected 21% of favorable opinions in an Ipsos survey for the gallery on Sunday, approaching its lowest historical level during the yellow vest movement.
Source: BFM TV
