The head of state has set up the balance sheet of his five-year, regretting some of his small sentences and renouncing pension reform. But he has also assumed his economic policy and scratched his potential rivals during the election of April 2022.
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We knew the “I changed” from Nicolas Sarkozy, place at the “I learned” from Emmanuel Macron. While his entourage is concerned about the image of distance – or even arrogance – that he has been referring since the beginning of his five-year, the head of state has attempted to fill this weak point, playing the card of the Empathy and humility, in a river, pre-recorded and distributed interview Wednesday, December 15, on TF1 and LCI. For nearly two hours, the President of the Republic was on a defense of his assessment, revisiting several key moments of his mandate.
An inventory of his action since 2017, on the tone of confidence. As an introspection exercise from the part which appears more and more like a candidate for his re-election. The exercise was a truth operation, in order to convince the French to renew its lease at the Elysee during the presidential election of April 2022. Its opponents see it a communication operation at one hour of great listening.
Before joining the campaign, Emmanuel Macron was committed to serving some episodes that could be wrong. Far from the assurance that it can sometimes clear, he expressed regrets, especially on the “small phrases” polemic he has spoken since his entry to the Elysée, like the one where he invited a young man to ” Cross the street “to find a job, or the one where he opposed” the successful people “and those” who are nothing “. “In some of my words, I wounded people,” he admitted, committing to “not to redo”. “There are words that can hurt, and I think it’s never good, it’s even unacceptable because respect is part of political life,” he insisted.
From “I learned” to “I assume”
To hear him, after confronting several crises, including that of Covid-19, he would no longer be the same man. The young president cleving and sometimes breaking the beginnings would have given way to a leader more attentive to others. A “human” and “emotional” man, who would have “acquired much more respect for each”. “No doubt that I am more sensitive to certain things that I was not before,” he said, promising to show more “indulgence and kindness” in the future. Saying having “learned” of his “mistakes”, he even went so far as to confess “better love” the French, in the hope, no doubt, that the opposite is also true.
If he has adoned to a form of Mea Culpa, no question, so much, to beat his coulpe excessively. After the “I learned”, the tenant of the Elysee chained with the formula “I assume” on several subjects. No more confessions, place on the counter-attack. The Benalla case? No regrets. M. Macron defended his ex-collaborator, explaining that he had been “administratively sanctioned, then excluded from the Elysée”, after the violence of the er -mai . A misleading chronology, since it is only after the revelation of the case by Le Monde, on July 18, 2018, that the Elysee decided to dismiss Alexandre Benalla – who had until then suffered layoff of fifteen days.
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