It's never too late to surprise. Not by resorting to unprecedented communication tricks, such as this press conference called for this Tuesday at 20:15 p.m. Emmanuel Macron is taking a big risk. There is nothing to say that the French will not prefer The Ride of the Seven Mercenaries, an American western broadcast tonight on C8, to the presidential operation that could drag on, conducted at a slow trot, on the major channels of the PAF. It is a curious Elysian decision to monopolize the airwaves for two hours when no extraordinary circumstance - a pandemic or a war - seems to justify such an act by the prince. Master of clocks, would the French omnipresident also be director of programs, as in the days of the ORTF?
It is not war, but the head of state wants, it is true, to place his second five-year term under the sign of "economic and civic rearmament", with ministers who are not "managers" but "revolutionaries"
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