François Hollande had had his slingers. Emmanuel Macron will have his deserters. Several members of the majority decided to back off. Disappointed by the promise of the new world, which has never come, they demand a social turn. This is the lesson they have learned from the health crisis. The story repeats itself. As soon as a storm hits France, the virus of good feelings reappears, carrying a supposedly more united and more ecological policy. In short, more to the left. These elected officials are famous strangers, but share with Nicolas Hulot, who got off the presidential boat twenty months ago, some old ideological moons.
The party of the head of state will therefore lose its absolute majority in the National Assembly. It is not the most serious. Much more worrying for France would be that it yields to the sirens of demagoguery. This response would neither make us forget the initial mismanagement of the pandemic nor put an end to the centers of contestation
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