can Emmanuel Macron’s speech convince the French?

While the president has just addressed the French in a speech broadcast on the evening of Monday April 17, we were warned that there would be no spectacular measure. But were Emmanuel Macron’s words enough to end the crisis? “I don’t have the impression, it’s all the dangers of the solemn address at 8 p.m. We expect a lot, especially today after three months of conflict and there, the French risk being seriously disappointed”, declares the editorialist Nathalie Saint-Cricq, present on the set of 20 Hours. Despite a tiny mea culpa, “there is nothing specific, nothing concrete and these sites were already known”she continues.

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Emmanuel Macron called for new coalitions and alliances. What might that look like? “We wonder because he says that his coalitions and alliances should be based on the national council for refoundation. I’m not sure that means much to the French and even perhaps to journalists”, underlines the editorialist. The president therefore remained vague and thus saves time by giving himself 100 days “as if the quinquennium started today”she concludes.