It was he who emphasized that he did not use the word by chance. Speaking of a “risk of collapse” - economic collapse, social collapse, moral collapse of the country - Edouard Philippe deliberately wanted to strike a blow. We were far from "hope reborn" or the promise of the return of "happy days" guaranteed by Emmanuel Macron in his address on Easter Monday.
This formula of Edouard Philippe recalled another, from one of his predecessors to Matignon, François Fillon, who had taken the same serious tone to warn that he was "at the head of a state in bankruptcy" . Lucidity or dramatization? Duty of truth or temptation to blacken the situation? It is as if the office of prime minister was associated with the word rigor. Wasn't Raymond Barre nicknamed "Father rigor"? Was it not Pierre Mauroy who had imposed on François Mitterrand the “turning point of rigor”, against the “evening visitors”, who advocated revival? There are many examples of
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