![The two errors and the mousehole of the president The two errors and the mousehole of the president](https://media.lesechos.com/api/v1/images/view/664f7f29f58784301d19a79d/1280x720/09097233412-web-tete.jpg)
Why did the list of the presidential majority fail, with a score around 15%? Emmanuel Macron undoubtedly believes, and partly rightly, that it is the wear and tear in power that is hitting him. In an era where everything moves quickly, seven years is a long time. Especially in a world which has all the appearances of anarchy, with a war 1,068 km from Strasbourg, and a deleterious climate in the French public debate.
But more profoundly, he has constantly overestimated the role of the economy in public expectations. Pension reform, unemployment insurance, competitiveness… It is symptomatic that the creation of two million jobs since 2017 (1,974,000 to be precise) has not impressed at all – whether this is unfair or not, and that ballast. Lionel Jospin experienced this at the turn of the 2000s: employment does not pay.