even my cousin doesn't care! – Liberation

Emmanuel Macron's procrastination in accepting a new team led by the centrist ends up producing an emollient mixture of exasperation and aquoibonism for a saturated opinion. Beware of danger.

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Even my cousin Mathieu doesn't care! Usually Mathieu is always the first – and the last – to text me to find out what's going on. He thinks that, in my position, I must be in the know. So, before the result of an election or at each reshuffle, I am entitled to my little questioning message. It's not the only one, of course. On our messaging services, usually “so where is it?”, “do you have any news?”, “So-and-so Inside, can you confirm?” flower. All political journalists are bombarded with messages from their loved ones, families, friends, colleagues who want to have a few hours head start, enough to be able to say to those around them that they are up to date or simply to satisfy, like Mathieu, their curiosity political buffs. But there, nothing.

Not a message. Even Mathieu, the best informed, the most curious of my loved ones, doesn't care and prefers to prepare for Christmas, undoubtedly prey, like so many people at the moment, to information fatigue, overwhelmed by particularly despairing national and international news. . It must be said that the prospect of the return or maintenance of the “big names” (Darmanin, Rebsamen, Dati) is not enough to excite the crowds. Procrastination