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“The true line of Macron, season 2? It is the event, unforeseeable, which will reveal it.

2022-05-22T18:16:24.007Z


INTERVIEW – Journalist François Bazin, a fine analyst of French political life, takes a subtle look at the composition of the new government. "The temporary has become his lot and the ephemeral, his destiny," he adds about the President of the Republic, yet re-elected in an armchair.


LE FIGARO.

- What do you think of the composition of the new government, and mainly of the choice of Elisabeth Borne at Matignon?

Is this, in your eyes, a sovereign choice of Emmanuel Macron?

Francois Bazin.

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In law and in practice, it is the president, and he alone, who appoints.

His choice, however, is more or less constrained.

In 2017, everything was to be built.

Emmanuel Macron wanted to be Jupiterian.

He was accountable only to himself, and it was a virtual stranger, Édouard Philippe, who came out of his hat.

Five years later, the situation has completely changed.

The macronie has become an addition of baronies where each has its own interests all the more exacerbated as this second five-year term is also the last.

The president, after long hesitation, had finally opted for Catherine Vautrin, a former minister of Chirac, as prime minister.

But, for multiple reasons, more or less political, he had to back down by doing things with Élisabeth Borne...

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