Flaubert said that the author must be in his work, like God in the universe,
“present everywhere, visible nowhere”.
Politics is not literature, Emmanuel Macron has therefore chosen to be
“present everywhere, visible everywhere”
.
Some imagined that the designation of Gabriel Attal signaled the dubbing of the heir, and therefore the gradual withdrawal of the president: it is quite the opposite.
Since the beginning of January, for appointments, for decisions, for commemorations, the boss has been Macron.
For succession?
The Fifth Republic, lavish in protection for the head of state, did not foresee this aspect of things.
Political thought, yes.
Human nature, even more so.
Emmanuel Macron will therefore be the referee of a game of small horses that he may be tempted to disrupt until the last moment.
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