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Nicolas Baverez: "France, a country in weightlessness for six months"

2022-06-05T17:33:53.465Z


CHRONICLE - For the time being, the re-election of Emmanuel Macron results in a triple vacuum of leadership, project and mobilization.


France is engaged in a strange electoral campaign.

The non-debate of the legislative elections prolongs the presidential non-debate.

The logic of the useful vote and the precautionary principle annihilate public life.

Paralyzed by the explosive pension reform which seems more and more stillborn, the presidential majority has chosen to counter the demagogy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Nupes, not by opposing a project to modernize France but by refusing any confrontation and practicing an evasive manoeuvre.

Silence and avoidance respond to the unleashing of egalitarian and identity-based passions.

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The bet to obtain a presidential majority, even composite, will undoubtedly win.

But the price to pay will be very high.

While France is in great difficulty, it will have multiplied the controversies without ever discussing the challenges it must face: reconstitution of a competitive and resilient productive system;

rebalancing of public accounts;

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Source: lefigaro

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