The last months of a presidency are always delicate to handle.
Emmanuel Macron today, like his predecessors yesterday, is exposed to two opposing trials.
Let him raise the pencil and put all action on the back burner, and he is criticized for doing nothing, for giving up acting to the end, for giving in to stagnation through excess of electoral prudence.
But that he opens worksites and launches reforms, one reproaches him then to make electoralism or, worse still, to have waited more than four years to discover the reality of a problem.
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The conclusions of the “Beauvau de la sécurité”, presented this Tuesday in Roubaix, illustrate the way in which the Head of State intends to avert this trap.
First, present and defend a balance sheet.
It was a substantial part of his speech, just to prove that there is no late conversion on his part to sovereign issues.
The reminder is necessary, but insufficient as the idea has become established in the opinion that safety was the blind spot
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