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Jean-Pierre Robin: "Why Emmanuel Macron takes a risk by excessively dramatizing the return to school"

2020-07-31T15:49:22.290Z


ANALYSIS - Unlike his two predecessors, the president calls for less collective effort than a form of individual resignation.


We are warned, "the start of the school year will be very hard, we must prepare for it" , word of the Elysee. For several weeks the President of the Republic has been enjoying playing the Cassandra: "Our country is going to experience bankruptcies and multiple social plans," he repeats over and over. He is obviously not the first head of state to announce difficult days. "I have nothing to offer but blood, tears and sweat" , hammered on May 13, 1940 Winston Churchill in his first speech in Parliament as Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was only taking back, knowingly, Giuseppe Garibaldi, one "of the fathers of the Italian fatherland", who, in 1849, had mobilized his troops with these words:"I offer hunger, thirst, forced march, battle and death."

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In less than two centuries, political eloquence has clearly become sanitized. And unlike his two predecessors, Emmanuel Macron calls less on collective effort than on a form of individual resignation. Certainly, the characteristic of a

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Source: lefigaro

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