While the president seems to be in an impasse, his end of reign also symbolizes the bankruptcy of the project which brought him to power in 2017. The promises of overcoming divisions, of renewing politics and transforming the country into a “start -up nation” seem very far away. Will Macronism survive Macron?
Sunday May 7, 2017. Emmanuel Macron has just been elected President of the Republic and speaks on the square in front of the Louvre. Although his victory against Marine Le Pen was then wide, he wanted to address the voters of the National Front candidate: “ I will do everything, during the next five years, so that they no longer have any reason to vote for the extremes. » Seven years, seven months, and one re-election later, the observation resonates as a bitter failure for Emmanuel Macron: Marine Le Pen and the National Rally have never seemed in such a favorable position to take power.
The defeat of a man? No doubt, but also the debacle of the eponymous system of thought, this macronism which promised to bring down the old French political system. What was his plan? Go beyond the left-right divide to replace it with the alliance of “progressives” against “conservatives”. “ Cut both ends of the omelette », as Alain Juppé trivially summarized it, by uniting the center left and the center right around common values: conviction of the beneficial nature of globalization and the need for France to adapt to it, faith of the coal maker towards a European construction adorned with all the virtues, promise of exemplarity and moralization of political life, supported by the contribution of civil society.
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