If Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal still had doubts, the agricultural crisis is there to remind them that a change of Prime Minister does not mean resetting the counters to zero.
While novelty and, possibly, youth attract attention and arouse an initial suspicion of goodwill, they do not offer renewed and unlimited credit.
If an unprecedented gap of three weeks was planned between Attal's appointment and his general policy speech, it was, confided those close to him, to have time to
"empty the trash"
before presenting his own statement of claim. road.
Solve the past to be able to approach the future.
Get rid of unpopular measures to lead towards brighter prospects.
Among these “trash items”, the rise in the price of electricity, necessarily unpleasant to announce, and which Bruno Le Maire supported without beating around the bush.
Also read: Nicolas Baverez: “Euthanasia of French agriculture”
But the job of a head of government is not to resolve crises in order to move forward, but to move forward...
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