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Guillaume Tabard: "Emmanuel Macron's intervention, a progress report rather than a long-term vision"

7/21/2023, 5:41:52 PM

Highlights: Until the end Emmanuel Macron wanted to trivialize this sequence of the reshuffle. Since "continuity" is his watchword, did it take three months to set the scene, draw up roadmaps, worry his ministers, let rumours and scenarios circulate? The form, as often, summarizes the substance. On April 17, it is by a televised address at 20 p.m. that he sets himself "one hundred days" to decree a "new impetus" He then chooses the most solemn expression possible. On 21 July, he contented himself with a statement to his ministers.


COUNTERPOINT - This post-reshuffle disappointment raises an institutional question and an existential question.

Until the end Emmanuel Macron wanted to trivialize this sequence of the reshuffle. To the point that one wonders why he stretched it so much. Since "continuity" is his watchword, did it take three months to set the scene, draw up roadmaps, worry his ministers, let rumours and scenarios circulate?

The form, as often, summarizes the substance. On April 17, it is by a televised address at 20 p.m. that he sets himself "one hundred days" to decree a "new impetus". He then chooses the most solemn expression possible. On 21 July, he contented himself with a statement to his ministers, although broadcast on television, but at 11.25 a.m. A choice anything but trivial for a president so verbose in "20 Hours". And which is an extension of the trivialization of the maintenance of Elisabeth Borne - not even a press release - and the reshuffle yet less technical than promised - ministers announcing their arrival and another commenting on her departure even before any announcement...

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