Emmanuel Macron’s admission of impotence, who submits to the RN – Libération

The Macronian “at the same time” was nothing more than an illusion. No one can now make people believe that it still exists. But this return of the right-left divide is the only good news of the moment. It is up to the left to make good use of it in the run-up to the next elections.

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There is still something baroque, after legislative elections largely lost by his camp, to appoint as Prime Minister the representative of a party that gathered even fewer voters during this election. Without returning here to the very long sequence of procrastination of Emmanuel Macron, who faced, it is true, political forces less constructive than one could have hoped but who himself demonstrated perversity by multiplying trial balloons in public, the feeling of a “all that for that” predominates. LR Michel Barnier, 73 years old, will therefore make his entry into Matignon, becoming the oldest head of government of the Fifth Republic, succeeding the one who was the youngest, Gabriel Attal.

By choosing a man from the right, elected for the first time at a time when he himself was only a few months old, what message is Emmanuel Macron trying to send to the French and to other political forces? That of experience and dialogue, one imagines, in what appears to be a spectacular return of the old world. In the press release diff