Lare the detractors of the Ve Republic would do well to meditate on the lesson. Rather than wanting to throw the Constitution away, they should take inspiration from its astonishing plasticity because who got the better of the monarch on Friday December 13? Who put the brakes on Emmanuel Macron's insatiable appetite for domination? The aspiring prime minister, François Bayrou, who, as a fine connoisseur of institutions, was able to turn to his advantage a fundamentally dual system, both presidential and parliamentary, embodied at his head by a diarchy condemned to get along.
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The standoff in which the Béarnais engaged in to dethrone the favorite, Sébastien Lecornu, whose quality the Elysée praised “facilitator” is not a first. In 2005, Dominique de Villepin exerted the same type of pressure on Jacques Chirac to oust the favorite Michèle Alliot-Marie. In both cases, the coup was able to succeed because two conditions were met: the number one was seriously weakened – Emmanuel Macron by the dissolution of the National Assembly in June; Jacques Chirac by voting no in the referendum on the European constitutional treaty of May 2005.
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However, a relationship of trust pre-existed between the two protagonists: Dominique de Villepin had been an unwavering support of Jacques Chirac in the bitter fight waged in 1995 against Edouard Balladur. François Bayrou and Emmanuel Macron were united by their 2017 alliance which had the effect of lastingly marginalizing the left and the right by the constitution of a central bloc whose existence, contested, on the contrary attempts to strengthen itself from crisis to crisis. crisis. Therein lies still the common interest of the two men.
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Freed from Elysian supervision without breaking the essentials, François Bayrou remains confronted with the same fragilities as Michel Barnier.
The latter did not manage to last more than ninety-nine days in Matignon and left the country without a budget. No more than his predecessor, the Béarnais cannot claim the rank of leader of the parliamentary majority since the MoDem, with its thirty-six deputies, only ranks seventh among the parties represented in the National Assembly and a coalition , more or less expanded, more or less solid, still remains to be built.
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