And it continues
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Lacking inspiration, Emmanuel Macron continues his endless consultations with a view to appointing a Prime Minister, testing the Cazeneuve and Bertrand options to the limit with the left and the right, and indirectly with the RN.
When he keeps people waiting in defiance of protocol, Emmanuel Macron, who is not punctual at all, often slips this excuse to those around him: “I’m never late, it starts when I arrive!” Clearly, the President of the Republic is still on the laborious path to find a Prime Minister, fifty days after the resignation of Gabriel Attal. Accustomed to seeing him procrastinate, his supporters, anxious to feed the myth of a head of state who always has the upper hand, like to depict a chess player inspecting all the options, liking to surprise and play with the nerves of his adversaries. Since the failure of his dissolution, Macron seems above all to be lacking inspiration, stuck by this scattered National Assembly.
He who, last week, promised to decide by Sunday, has found yet another good reason to postpone his choice: yet another consultation of the parliamentary groups, this Tuesday, August 3, including successive exchanges in the afternoon with the socialist, communist and environmentalist leaders. At the national office of the PS, the first secretary, Olivier Faure, proposed to his troops a text listing ten “requirements and emergencies” which the future head of government should commit to – more or less the New Front programme
