This interview with Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening at TF1 is part of a vast media counter-offensive… Renaud Dély’s political editorial.
Talk and move. Talking, talking again, and moving, everywhere, all the time, this is how the Head of State is trying to get back on his feet and turn the page on pensions. On the media side, for the past three weeks, he has averaged two interviews per week: an interview published in several regional newspapers, long interviews in two national dailies, another in a weekly, and therefore a TV interview on Monday June 16: the Elysée brings out the tactics of the carpet of media bombs.
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All this without counting the microphones that stretch out as he travels across the country: already half a dozen despite the stormy receptions and the pans. In fact, to get out of the social crisis, Emmanuel Macron is doing the great post-yellow vests debate again, but in another mode, harsher and more solitary, to spread a message: “I advance, I govern“. Clearly. A month ago, Emmanuel Macron assigned the Prime Minister the task of building “enlarged majorities”to look for a “new coalition“.
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Well, it was mission impossible, there is no reinforcement. Too bad. No question for Emmanuel Macron of letting the idea of a quinquennium stuck, weighed down for lack of an absolute majority and condemned to immobility. Hence the tribute paid Monday evening to Élisabeth Borne: her “courage“, her “determination“and his government which”advance to allow the country to be independent“. And then this course set on the reconquest of the middle classes with blows of tax relief.
So finished the “Boogey Father of pension reform” and place the “president of good news”, therefore tax cuts or record foreign investments and job creators.
Since 2017, Emmanuel Macron has had to face many storms: yellow vests, Covid, war in Ukraine, or retirements. He runs the risk of being reduced to the status of president of crises, denounced, as does Marine Le Pen, as being himself a bearer of disorder. It is therefore urgent to ward off the danger of the great downgrading stirred up by the opposition. With the resumption of dialogue with the unions invited today to Matignon, we want to believe, on the side of the Élysée, that this second five-year term will finally begin. A year late.