“By refusing to play the imperfect game of democracy, convinced that the ideal solution can only come from him, Emmanuel Macron has deprived himself of options” | EUROtoday

Matignon Circus. Two months after the second spherical of the legislative elections, marked by the best turnout in thirty years, Emmanuel Macron nonetheless has not managed to study the teachings of the vote, his interminable consultations turning right into a farce. Against a backdrop of back-and-forths within the courtyard of the Elysée, of misinformation and trial balloons, the scores of 1 and the opposite rise and fall, in a pitiful pendulum motion.

One day, it was the previous prime minister of François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve – whose identify and positioning “center left” have been put ahead as apparent final week by the palace advisors – who appear to be holding the rope… Another day, it’s the president (Les Républicains, LR) of the Hauts-de-France area, Xavier Bertrand, who’s the favourite… Between the 2, the identify of a whole unknown to the French – the president of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, Thierry Beaudet, for whom the Elysée had began searching for a chief of workers, emerged, earlier than instantly deflating. Splash, splash, right here we go once more…

“Matignon: Macron tests one name per day!”could possibly be learn on Tuesday, September 3, on a banner of the continual information channel BFM-TV. The exclamation level, uncommon, underlines the surreal tone of the second.

And whereas the commentators are laughing, kind of discreetly, on the units, comedians and evil spirits of all stripes are having a area day. On Sunday, when new consultations have been introduced on the Elysée, a former advisor to François Hollande, Gaspard Gantzer, reeled off on X: “On Tuesday, he will receive all the former prime ministers since 1981. On Wednesday, the Césars for best actor since 1977. On Thursday, the winners of the Tour de France since 1958…” As for the previous advisor to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, Ziad Gebran, now with the insurer Axa, he known as on Tuesday on X to the divinatory skills of “Paul the Octopus”.

Errors of judgment and procrastination

Throughout the summer season, Emmanuel Macron performed with the small political world like a cat with mice, throwing the ball generally to the precise, generally to the left and even to the middle (the well-known speculation “technical”). “I saw those who went for a walk this summer…”he slipped, amused, to the boss of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, obtained on the Elysée. To characterize the work of “decantation”supposed to scale back the sector of potentialities, the president's shut associates summon the picture of the funnel. But it’s he himself who has put himself there. And the extra the one who believes he has the higher hand waits, the extra he seems, quite the opposite, overwhelmed.

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