TRIBUNE – On the brink of the abyss, Emmanuel Macron is saved by a representative of the old world that he abhors, underlines the academician*. But if the new prime minister arouses great hopes, he will have to show great skill to stay in place, he continues.
*Latest book published: “The Italian Mistress” (Gallimard, 2024).
It is difficult to define all the diffuse feelings aroused by the appointment of Michel Barnier. The first is relief. The second feeling is that of an unexpected break with a world of bluff and frills, from which politics seemed incapable of extricating itself. With Barnier, we have finally emerged from an inextricable situation that seemed likely to lead to a regime crisis. With its corollaries: instability, excesses, and the questioning of institutions.
After the shock of the dissolution and the general confusion instead of the promised clarification, we were sinking into a psychodrama prey to our old demons: legitimacy versus legality. France seemed to have become a drunken ship. We had suddenly lost confidence in the captain. How could a president have unnecessarily shot himself in the foot?
Hence the idea that this dissolution…
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