The staging says so much: Emmanuel Macron at the center of a podium, surrounded by candidates invested by the presidential majority for the legislative elections, some of whom brandish their smartphones to immortalize the moment, even asking him for autographs after his brief speech of less than 30 minutes… When it's not a selfie or downright kiss.
The re-elected president had promised "a new method" for this second five-year term.
But this image alone is enough to remind us that "everything proceeds from him and for him", as his lieutenants have so often admitted in the past.
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