Again and again to manage the crisis.
The start of the school year is looming and, for the second year in a row, Emmanuel Macron must fight a wave of Covid, which is coupled with a movement to challenge the health pass.
With this paradoxical equation for the Head of State: this crisis management serves him as much as it hinders him.
On the one hand, it allows it to consolidate its support base;
on the other, it prevents it from resuming the hoped-for course of reforms.
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The weekend indicators are good for him.
While the composite mobilization of anti-pass, anti-tax and anti-power is slowing down - without losing momentum - its popularity has increased by 3 points, to an enviable level for a president in the last year of his mandate.
Insufficient and premature to claim that Macron has won the battle of opinion and that his opponents have lost that of the streets.
But the calendar is on its side: the further the vaccination progresses, the more the threat of restrictions or the risk of embolism from the epidemic will recede.
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