The magic of words no longer operates.
In 2017, Emmanuel Macron promised "revolution", the title of his program book.
The man was new in the landscape, carrying, it was believed, fine ambitions and new uses in politics.
Five years later, we know what it is.
France is more than ever becalmed in its problems, which successive crises have only aggravated.
Debt, insecurity, disintegration of public services remain the three symptoms of the French drift.
To remedy this, "refoundation" is the new mantra of the head of state, through a national council which he kicks off this Thursday.
On the form, the presidential initiative has already caused much ink to flow.
No opposition party agrees to take part in this pretense of direct democracy.
It was predictable.
What is most worrying, however, is that this new method of governance hides less a desire for dialogue to find solutions than an absence of objectives.
Emanuel Macron...
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