On the merits, the controversy aroused by the incidents of the Stade de France Saturday, May 28, is disproportionate to the controversy which still traumatizes the entire political class, including Macronie, explains a seasoned adviser: the blunder of Jean-Louis Borloo in 2007 , on the evening of the first round of legislative elections. Then Minister of the Economy, he had hinted at an increase in VAT. The right estimates that at the time, Jean-Louis Borloo caused him to lose almost 80 deputies.
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“But the problem when you are a candidate is that, when you distribute your leaflets on a market, no Parisian subject should come and interfere with you.summarizes a figure of the campaign. A candidate needs to be given energy, not taken away from him”. Gold “with the image that France gave to the eyes of the world last Saturday, it is the case: people are talking about it”, finds this source with franceinfo. The controversy experienced a new episode, Wednesday, June 1, with the hearing of Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, before the senators.
The difficulty, believes an observer yet close to Emmanuel Macron, is that during this time, just over a week before the legislative elections, nothing is happening. No story to feed the campaign, no short-term project. To refute the impression of “floating” (a word that comes from the base to the top of the macronist pyramid). The Élysée defends a “sound time management since re-election”a “willingness to do things in order” to justify the four-week delay in appointing a government and the president’s month-long absence from the field. Except that “the only way to print is to strike people’s imagination, with concrete measures”, and there is “no carry at the executive level”, believes a framework of the majority, sorry to attend “a hopelessly flat campaign”.
Emmanuel Macron wanted to gain height but the controversy therefore begins to reach him because it occupies space. The error, judges a strategist of the majority, is to have let the subject live without defusing it and without succeeding in diverting attention from it. “When you don’t make the news, you suffer from it”, recalls, bitterly, support from the president who, like others, judges the return of Emmanuel Macron to the field on Tuesday rather unsuccessful.
Many of them believe that the French have learned nothing from the trip to Cherbourg on the theme of health, except perhaps the launch of a mission on the emergency situation, perceived as yet another report. “If it’s the same thing today with the school in Marseille, it’s not worth going there”, drops an evening visitor. “The problem when you gain height is that afterwards you have to know how to come down”, drops a power adviser.