Sébastien Lecornu, the loyal however emancipated prime minister who provides contemporary air to Emmanuel Macron | EUROtoday

The destiny of politicians, even essentially the most competent, “depends on the waves of time”noticed the Dutch historian and thinker Luuk van Middelaar in 2010. Emmanuel Macron has simply skilled it as soon as once more. Under fireplace from criticism two weeks in the past for his worldwide coverage, since January 20 he has been on the coronary heart of an ephemeral “sacred union”starting from Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Jordan Bardella, for having, in Davos (Switzerland), stood as much as Donald Trump on Greenland. Like the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-2021, just like the outbreak of struggle in Ukraine in 2022, the expansionist needs of the American president provide, right now, “president of crises” the chance to thrust back, at the very least for a time, the curse of unpopularity.

Will this renewed curiosity permit it to change into audible once more on the nationwide political scene, eighteen months after the scathing disavowal of the 2024 legislative elections? Like a participant who at all times thinks he can remake himself, Emmanuel Macron, confined till now to his reserved area – overseas affairs and protection – now makes an attempt to reconnect with topics affecting the each day lives of the French. While he now not has management over inner affairs, he launched a textual content geared toward banning entry to social networks for these beneath 15, at the moment being debated in Parliament. From his workplace, the top of state, who is considering his legacy, ensures that the parliamentary calendar is saved, urging the federal government, Sunday in a video, “to initiate the accelerated procedure so that things can go as quickly as possible”. The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, complied.

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