It’s an interminable soap opera that should have already ended, and continues to unfold its tiresome and confusing episodes. Tiresome: France has been in an electoral sequence for almost 100 days, with the European and legislative elections. Confusing: one day, it is announced that the Prime Minister will be right-wing, the next day left-wing, the day after that technical. And vice versa.
The tragedy is that it will obviously be appropriate to wish the future tenant of Matignon good luck, it is in the interest of the country. While being well aware that most political parties will wish for his failure, whether publicly or secretly. Because if the 2027 presidential election does not obsess the French, it drives the candidates crazy.
This long sequence has in any case revealed the unconsciousness, not to say the irresponsibility, of all those who are supposed to look after the general interest. First and foremost, the head of state. During the summer, he did not advance one iota the “clarification” that he had promised, and he gave the impression of wanting to keep his hands on the wheel as much as possible.
It is conceivable that Emmanuel Macron, elected and re-elected, considers that his legitimacy remains intact and that he does not want his assets to fall by the wayside. In particular, an attractiveness policy that has produced successes and the main principles of a pension reform that was forced through. But are we aware that he has not said anything to the French for weeks and has not advanced the political situation one iota?
The other major party responsible for the deadlock is the “Front du refus”, in short the New Popular Front and the RN. It is truly reckless to trivialize motions of censure in this way by announcing them a priori. The NFP, because it remains for “Lucie Castets or nothing”. The RN, which settles an old “northern” dispute with Xavier Bertrand.
The great political paradox is that the majority of voters, in the second round of the legislative elections in July, erected what is commonly called a republican barrier against the party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella so that it would not enter Matignon, but that it is they who end up appearing as the kingmakers.
This lost time is all the more serious because the clock is ticking for public finances. The data revealed by Bercy on the drift of the accounts are worrying because they give the impression that the budgetary situation is close to being out of control – even though the French are dissatisfied with their public services, which is the height of irony.
