The head of state governs at the will of the emergency room, and in particular the energy crisis linked to the war in Ukraine. A way also to hide an absence of course, it is denounced even in your own camp.
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Emmanuel Macron likes in his costume of “President of Crises”. This posture of a reassuring manager, who proposes to preserve the essentials, allowed him to be re-elected head of state, on April 24, after two years of COVID-19 epidemic, while the war was in Ukraine. There is no question of changing register, on the eve of the first back to school of this new five -year term – a council of ministers is scheduled for Wednesday, August 24.
After three weeks of summer break, during which he remained discreet, Mr. Macron broke his silence, Friday August 19, on the occasion of the ceremony commemorating the 78 years of the Liberation of Bormes-les-Mimosas ( Var), not far from his vacation from the Brégançon Fort. The opportunity to land again as a captain in the storm.
The French, he warned in his speech, will have to show “force of soul” in the coming months and “agree to pay the price of freedom” in the face of the consequences of the Russian invasion . Energy level, should we understand. The next fall and winter are in the grip of potential restrictions due to the threat that Moscow makes to cut his gas deliveries to Europe to make him pay his support for kyiv.
On July 14, the Head of State already warned that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, could use gas as a “weapon of war”, and called his fellow citizens to a “general mobilization” for more “sobriety “In their energy consumption. This question will dominate the executive agenda in the coming weeks, says the Elysée. “Sobriety plans” must be declined for institutions, public administrations, economic actors and ordinary consumers.
If the times are disturbed, they allow you to camouflage the fact that Emmanuel Macron’s Cape Town is too. Since he launched his campaign for his re -election, in February, the former Minister of the Economy failed to explain the goal he set for his new mandate. The disheveled reformer lived; His friends point to a “lack of strategic projection”, or even annoy a power that “waded”.
“This five -year term seems to advance semester by semester, according to permanent crisis management. This prudence undoubtedly manifests the awareness of the threat that exogenous crises weigh, which suppose not to weaken the National”, excuse The former “feather” of the Head of State, Sylvain Fort.
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