For six decades, the subject has been an inexhaustible mine for constitutional experts and journalists: what articulation between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister? As the hour of choice - or the announcement of the choice - approaches for Emmanuel Macron, the question is less who he wants to appoint to Matignon than the role he intends to give the head of government.
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The head of state has two intentions which may seem contradictory. The first is that to get the country going again, it is better to "share the responsibilities" ; the second is that, always to get the country going again, short circuits are needed between decision-making and execution. The first intention could lead to a Prime Minister with reinforced authority; the second incites to make it a simple executor of the presidential will. And if the president's words push in the first direction, his temperament guides him towards the second.
"Not everything can be decided
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