After “the world in crisis“, make way for “French emergencies” for Emmanuel Macron with the second part of the France 2 program “L’Evénement”, Wednesday October 26 from 8:30 p.m., opposite journalist Caroline Roux. Security, immigration, purchasing power, medical deserts, ecology… there is no shortage of subjects.
Emmanuel Macron “controls his files” when he talks about international subjects, summarizes a minister, returning to the broadcast of a fortnight ago, now he must “take over people’s daily lives“. Wages lagging behind in the face of rising prices, fuel which is still sometimes lacking, the cost of energy which worries, the state of hospitals, always, and doctors who are lacking… “Often, in the Council of Ministers, he begins by evoking the way the French feel about things“, says a regular.
One of the topics that will be discussed on Wednesday is security. “A must”, says a regular at the Council of Ministers, especially with the Lola affair. “The murder of little Lola remains at the heart of all discussions“, believes this member of the government. The sovereign is a subject on which Emmanuel Macron always has the most difficulty convincing that he is the man for the job, sighs a support: “Even on the strike in the refineries, we were accused of having let the mess set in“Security, immigration: his right wing pushes him to show more firmness.
If Emmanuel Macron will try at best to stick to the daily life of the French, the President does not give up the idea of “reset the course”, as he wished for each of his interventions. “To hold the helm in the storm is to prevent the boat from taking on water and sinking. It’s true for everyone, even for Macron“, says a minister. And he recognizes, six months after the presidential election, the executive is perpetually subject to the pressure of the moment, polluted by crises which do not just follow one another, but which add up. Result, notes a framework of the majority: “The guiding line, we do not see it well. The expression of a reforming impulse is absent”. The regularly cited example is green transition and planning: “Between the ultra-technocratic construction sites and the turtleneck, one has the impression that there is nothing, no political project to mobilize the nation“, annoyed a figure of the government.
This is the difficulty of this Wednesday evening’s exercise for the President: sticking to the daily life of the French, while recalling where he is taking the country, explains a relative, who lists what he will have to remember: “His goal of achieving full employment, his proclaimed ambition to defend the French social model, with a new pension reform – a logic that he must explain to the French by the way –, the determination to get out of fossil fuels”. One of his friends becomes a philosopher: “To tell the fable of the future it is imperative to be able to manage the present.”