no national unity, but discussions on a case-by-case basis

After Emmanuel Macron’s speech on Wednesday June 22, the French know a little better the direction the president wants to take. “He was relatively clear, he said he heard”, analyzes Nathalie Saint-Cricq, political columnist for France Télévisions, on the set of 20 Hours. During his speech, the president trivialized the fact that a government does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly, taking Germany and Italy as examples.

“There is something that is quite clever, it is the way of passing the responsibility to the opposition parties, that is to say that he says ‘I heard you, the national union you don’t don’t want it’ (…) we’ll discuss”, continues Nathalie Saint-Cricq. According to the columnist, the president did not really specify how it was going to happen in the coming days. During the speech, Emmanuel Macron did not speak of Elisabeth Borne, nor of a possible change of Prime Minister.