The decision taken by the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly is certainly justified on a democratic level, but by seeking at all costs to convince the electorate that the country is threatened, Emmanuel Macron is demonstrating both opportunism and narcissism. Ivan Rioufol’s analysis.
The fear factory is broken. Intellectual intimidation no longer works. Emmanuel Macron is, in France, the loser of the European elections. Everything indicates that he will subsequently be the loser in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. His repeated warnings about the rise of “the extreme right”, “democracy under threat”, “the enormous danger” what a vote in favor of the RN or Reconquest would represent are no longer taken seriously.
The “new world” has a hangover
Reality shakes up ideologies. The wall of political correctness, this totalitarianism of good conscience, collapsed on Sunday June 9, 2024 at 8 p.m., under the weight of its lies and denials. For seeking to demonize the anger of the French, the head of state accentuated its expression. The old world is ending: that of globalist democrats hating the people and the nation. The propagandist nonsense will have been made by Macron himself, like that of June 6: “If tomorrow the far right has a blocking minority in Europe, you will no longer have a Europe of vaccines. These are people who will give you chloroquine or the Sputnik vaccine.” Should we recall that behind the Europe of vaccines there was, in addition to a frightening health order, the distribution of experimental products with very relative effectiveness and significant side effects? Should we remember that a complaint against Ursula von der Leyen was filed for its opaque contracts (36 billion euros!) with Pfizer ? Between now and July 7, Macronian Manichaeism promises much more disinformation.
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Macron’s decision, yesterday at 9 p.m., to dissolve the Assembly and call for legislative elections before the summer holidays is nevertheless democratically irreproachable. The people’s motion of censure replaced that, always rejected, of the pusillanimous deputies.
Manon Aubry talks about Hitler
No doubt the president still hopes to convince, by then, of the incompetence of Marine Le Pen and the imminence of a fascist surge. Manon Aubry (LFI) set the tone of predictable hysteria by summarizing the alternative thus: “More like Hitler than the Popular Front. We must expect, from those in power and the left, an outpouring of indignation over the “return of the thirties” and the unpreparedness of the RN to govern. But the lucid will no longer fall into this trap of gogos. Macron, blinded by his narcissism, underestimates the rejection of himself and the distrust he arouses among ordinary people. These hasty legislative elections are shaping up to be a referendum for or against the head of state and the fictional world he defends. In the event of an RN wave in the Assembly, the question of a resignation of the disowned President of the Republic would also arise. As for the now probable hypothesis of cohabitation, it could offer the RN too novice a useful apprenticeship, and the right an opportunity to come together at the heart of the government machine.
There remains this new political situation: the pariahs of yesterday are now called upon, almost everywhere, to write history. The wind of revolution is rising… on the right.
