If he had stuck to the polls, Emmanuel Macron would have done the exact opposite of what he did. The French asked him to keep Edouard Philippe but to change his policy. He has changed Prime Minister but intends to stay the same. It is not here that the head of state will be criticized for refusing to take the polls as the only compass. Nor to favor the long-term result of a policy over the short-term impact of a decision. The exercise of provoking a rebound by betting on continuity is no less perilous.
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Let us first bet that the institutional debate will fizzle out. Jean Castex himself reminds us of this in his first interview at the JDD : in the French executive couple, one is elected, the other is not, which once and for all founds the principle of presidential primacy. With a personality "not very soluble in the term of collaborator" , the new occupant of Matignon also warned on the first day of his appointment, Friday
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