According to the formula he likes, Emmanuel Macron "took his risk". It is indeed a risk to separate from a popular, loyal, efficient and respected Prime Minister. It is also a risk of propelling Matignon an unknown to the French, certainly mayor and good connoisseur of the state, but without national or parliamentary political experience. Finally, it is a risk of exposing himself even more by incurring the trial of suppressing, in spirit if not in fact, the office of Prime Minister.
The head of state considered that the worst risk for him would be not to take it and that each of his bets could prove to be profitable in the long term. Deprive yourself of the Philippe master card? Perilous, indeed, especially to keep a right-wing electorate which Macron will need more than ever to ward off the awakening of a left repainted in green. But the man at the Élysée Palace is convinced, on the one hand, that the novelty effect will prevail over regrets; that media curiosity around
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