TRIBUNE
Article reserved for subscribers
The president ends his second term as he began the first: with Bayrou at his side. A sign that he has lost all narrative character, that he is talking to himself, that his power is coming to an end, according to the writer Christian Salmon.
With the incredible appointment of François Bayrou, we have just witnessed one of these “prank events” of which Jean Baudrillard said that they are intended “to hide the end of all power both from those who believe they exercise it and from those who believe they are subjected to it.”
We are dealing less with a political vaudeville as has been said, than with a phantom event which, far from resolving the political impasse in which Emmanuel Macron finds himself since the dissolution of the National Assembly, only pushes us deeper into it. From his shortened visit to Poland to the sham return of the presidential Falcon to Paris, from the obscure telephone negotiations during the night that followed, to the early morning standoff between the President and François Bayrou, nothing was revealed to us. spared from the deliberation of the Head of State with himself, a sort of St. Vitus dance of the monarch without a line of conduct emerging in his uncontrolled movements, nor the slightest glimmer of understanding of the political crisis we are going through.
From hour to hour, the media accompanied this saraband of speculations, rumors and denials with
