COUNTERPOINT – Fourteen weeks after the dissolution, nothing is clear except the absence of any stable or reliable solution and nothing has been clarified except the weariness of citizens in the face of this endless mediocre soap opera.
Consultation does not equal appointment. But it is already an indication. By officially receiving Bernard Cazeneuve and Xavier Bertrand at the Élysée, Emmanuel Macron admits that the choice of the former prime minister of François Hollande or that of the president of Hauts-de-France are not just suppositions of advisers or pressure from their close relations, but indeed, indeed hypotheses whose viability he intends to verify.
Unless, once again, the head of state tries to cover his tracks. While for several days the president has been dismissing the Bertrand hypothesis on the grounds that, like Lucie Castets, he would not escape censorship, inviting him may indeed be a way of making it clear that receiving Cazeneuve does not necessarily mean appointing him.
This Elysian step is therefore important but not necessarily conclusive. Concerned about “institutional stability”, the head of state wants to ensure that his future head of government…
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