Does Emmanuel Macron still want? The mess continues for the president, seeming to affect his morale, worrying even his faithful.
“He has his mind a little elsewhere at the moment,” a deputy who knows him well advances to BFMTV.com to justify the doubts of recent weeks.
“Foul” for “doing everything right”
After a start to his term considered a failure, between a casting in Matignon that lasted for days, the catastrophic episode at the Stade de France and the Abad affair, the Head of State intended to regain control at the start of the school year.
“I saw us shielding everything and doing everything properly. Well, he is missed ”, cowardly, severe, a Macronist senator.
In the midst of the controversy over private jets and while France is experiencing the second hottest summer in its history, between record drought and mega-fires in Gironde, Here it is published in August photos of the Head of State doing a jet ski not far from Fort Brégançon. Enough to give pause to the left, from Sandrine Rousseau to Clémentine Autain.
“The symbol was not well chosen. That he does not understand it leaves me a little speechless and I am worried about what goes through his head,” warns a former Renaissance elected official.
zigzags of language
The head of the MoDem, François Bayrou, may well step up to the plate on BFMTV to defend the Elysée tenant, denouncing an “absolutely ridiculous controversy”, he is one of the few within the majority who publicly defends him.
About ten days after these photos, the president resumed his trip to Paris. For his first Council of Ministers of the new school year, Emmanuel Macron gravely announces “the end of abundance” and “recklessness for those who still had it”, warning the French against the “great change we are experiencing”.
But less than a week after these serious statements, the executive changed his mind. At the end of the National Defense and Security Council on energy on September 2, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister for the Energy Transition, finally wants very reassuring.
“He sails on sight”
Four days later, Emmanuel Macron also tries to smooth things over during a press conference. He then encourages the French to “save 10% of what we normally consume”, a goal “achievable with a series of simple gestures”.
“We could blame the president for many things, but beforehand he knew where he wanted to go. There I have the impression that he is tired and that he sails in sight, without a precise idea ”, deciphers a Renaissance executive. , who cares about this scull strategy.
Enough to push his lieutenants to play their own sheet music. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne thus opens the door to a tax on super-profits during the summer, while Bercy’s boss, Bruno Le Maire, is strongly opposed. Emmanuel Macron is trying to close the issue by supporting a European system. But several deputies are still trying to put the issue back on the table during the 2022 budget.
“The failure” of the National Refoundation Council
Last episode that shows the president’s discomfort: the National Council of the refoundation that he glimpsed as “a new democratic method” that allows him to start -finally- his second five-year term.
Boycott of the opposition, skepticism of the majority itself… The device has been in the lead since its launch, Thursday, September 8. Worse still: while Emmanuel Macron hoped that the conclusions of the day would make some absentees want to participate in the second edition, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. Enough to put the work of the CNR under the radar.
“He bet a lot that he would bounce back and have momentum. It ends in a dismal failure. Inevitably, he weighs on morale ”, further advances a ministerial adviser.
In the ranks of the Executive, many are betting on the arrival of the former lobbyist Frédéric Michel as special advisor on communication and strategy to the president. “Only a man can cheer him up and make him want to wet his shirt again, I hope,” one elected official tries positively. Without really believing it.
Source: BFM TV
