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Unlike the President of the Republic, I granted myself not a day but a good week of rest (hence the absence of a letter last week) to prepare myself for the deadlines of the coming weeks.
Well, they are certainly of a much lower content than those with which Emmanuel Macron will be confronted.
History says it and Charles Jaigu reminds us: any re-elected Elysée guest lives through a painful second term.
For him or for the French - sometimes for both.
Charles de Gaulle re-elected in 1965?
Three years later, here he is entangled in the mess of May 68 and soon pushed out after a lost referendum.
President Charles de Gaulle voting for the constitutional referendum of April 27, 1969 in Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises.
AFP
François Mitterrand re-elected in 1988?
Increasingly ill, faced with embarrassing revelations about his past, appointing unsuitable prime ministers (Cresson, Rocard), he lost his side in 1993 (the PS never really recovered) and in 1995. Jacques Chirac re-elected in 2002?
Petrified by…
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