It's starting to sound like Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. But who is this Godot? Names are circulating but we don’t see anything coming. Oh yes, Bruno Retailleau. He is apparently the only one who is sure of finding the Ministry of the Interior. He knew how to carve out a place for himself as a monomaniac about immigration. A card to reconcile the National Rally? Not sure if it's the right one, but it sets the tone. To the right. François Bayrou pretended to consult, including on the left. This was of course to not give up, particularly on pensions. No real opening. So this has been going on for six months.
Six months to get there, after the Jupiterian and absurd decision to dissolve the National Assembly, taken by Emmanuel Macron alone. What did he hope for, when he could not really ignore the loss of credibility of his camp, failing in the European elections. Cohabitation with the RN and Jordan Bardella, Prime Minister, with the idea of reshuffling the cards, again? The Republican front decided otherwise and the result of the New Popular Front made the operation impossible.
Republican and democratic logic, as we know, would have wanted him to appoint a left-wing prime minister, to pursue a left-wing policy, even if it would have called for text-by-text majorities, or even compromises. . This is what he decided to oppose, at all costs, gaining time, constantly postponing a decision that was increasingly difficult to make, until he named, in a manner both pathetic and derisory, Michel Barnier, then François Bayrou, as if they had the key to the situation.
What a paradox for the one who, in 2017, promised to renew politics and now only presides ever further to the right with a cast that we will see after the holidays, without credit in public opinion, totally closed to social emergencies and singularly open to the multiplication of social plans. All for that. Contrary to the famous formula, he did not change anything so that nothing would change.
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