Coronavirus upsets party certainties, economy is back in force

In the party headquarters, the economy again becomes the priority subject. Will social insecurity shake up the cultural insecurity that was the bedrock of the Macron-Le Pen duel? What place for ecological transition in a society in crisis? Anticipating the violence of the recession that is looming, political leaders are revisiting their doctrine. Two years before the presidential election, it is a matter of falling back on its feet after the health shock which has battered both the curves and the certainties. The most liberal being particularly expected at the turn.

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First Emmanuel Macron, who promised to "reinvent himself" . Elected just three years ago on the promise of a "new world" freed from constraints and in perpetual movement, Emmanuel Macron blows out his cloistered candles. Its economic successes, especially on the unemployment front, have cruelly flown away. The pension reform, which was to clean up public accounts, has given way to "the state will pay" and "what

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