Emmanuel Macron’s first interview since the legislative elections: what should we expect?

The President of the Republic will speak on France 2 and franceinfo on Tuesday evening, three days before the opening of the Paris Olympic Games.

The President of the Republic will speak on Tuesday, July 23 at 8:10 p.m. from the Olympic plateau of France Télévisions, with the Eiffel Tower behind. This is the first time he has spoken since July 7 and the result of the legislative elections. The interview will consist of two parts: a first political sequence and a second devoted to the Olympic Games.

It is no coincidence that he is speaking now. The National Assembly has got into gear, this is a turning point. He wants to give the image of a president who is taking a step back, who is distancing himself from French political life, who is taking a breath of fresh air as he prepares to welcome the whole world. On Monday, during his visit to the Olympic Village, Emmanuel Macron spoke of the need “of a political truce”a break, to make way for national cohesion. Its objective on Tuesday evening is to offer the image of a country united around the sporting event, and where divisions have no place.

On the left, the New Popular Front is still fractured, bogged down in its negotiations between the rebels and the socialists. On the other side, it is also war, the war of the right, with Éric Ciotti who calls on activists to choose their camp between the fringe close to the National Rally and the line of Laurent Wauquiez, who, for his part, puts a legislative pact on the table. As for the National Rally, the head of state intends to note that he is high but that the French do not want him to govern.

In this political landscape that has been shattered like a puzzle, Emmanuel Macron is seeking to position himself above the fray and present himself as the guarantor, the arbiter, the one who calls for parliamentary conflicts to be overcome in order to build coalitions between Republican forces. “Truce” not meaning, for the head of state, that we must stop building alliances as the French are demanding.

This also means that there will not be a new Prime Minister right away, which brings us to the start of the school year. When exactly? Emmanuel Macron risks cultivating ambiguity, but he does not plan to install a new government before the end of the Olympic events on August 11. In the meantime, it will be time for the Games, for sport, for vacations, for those who can take them. This will be the message from the president.