At a time when his bill is disputed, the Head of State promises the opening of a new cycle focused on health, education or ecological transition. A way to step over pensions and give readability to your second five -year term.
by Matthieu Goar
French political life has long gone to the fantasy of the hundred days. Souvenir of a distant cavalcade – the return to power of Napoleon i er in 1815 before his second abdication -, this unwritten rule would like that a head of state benefits from his first three months for In depth transforming the country and launching structuring projects. Re -elected after a sluggish campaign that did not offer him a state of grace, hampered by a relative majority, Emmanuel Macron prefers to bet on the “day after”.
In the middle of the tumult on pension reform, the relatives of the President of the Republic pass the message that after the adoption of this disputed bill, a new period will open, that of a refoundation of France “to prepare it for the challenges of the XXI e century”, in the words of these advisers. A projection in the future which allows him both to span the pension reform and to give a little more readability to his second five -year term. “The urgency should not make us forget the long term. Our responsibility is to prepare the future of our country,” said Elisabeth Borne, when he wishes the press on January 23.
The months parading, the Elysée tries to weave a “red thread” to this still vague mandate where the Head of State does not have the total mastery of the agenda. At the heart of the summer of 2022, Emmanuel Macron would have liked to get rid of the unpopular pension reform faster. He had to manage the urgency of inflation and spend the long weeks of fall to look at the parliamentary tactics. And, in order not to stay in the imagination of the French as a manager of crises and financial balances, he relaunches, at low noise for the moment, his more ambitious ideas. “As for us, let us be this generation of builders,” he said during his wishes on December 31, 2022. Words very agreed that his communicator Frédéric Michel had however taken care to emphasize with the advisers of the executive.
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His relatives therefore summarize the continuation of the five -year term to several immense projects: health, national education, the renovation of public services, the ecological transition and the reform of institutions. Several meetings took place at the Elysée at the start of the year on the first two themes, the most advanced files of the National Refoundation Council. As he fears to see Marine Le Pen succeed him, the Head of State would like to leave a more “serene” France when he started by trying to absorb democratic distrust by strengthening “popular sovereignty”, according to an expression Employed in private by Mr. Macron. These projects still seem fairly nebulous, the President of the Republic who does not want to close any door, while his entourage advances several avenues on institutions: a new form of decentralization by removing a level of communities, proportional and the reduction in the number of parliamentarians , and above all the need for democratic breathing during a five -year term. This can mean to decouple the legislative elections of the presidential election, and fuels rumors on a possible dissolution of the National Assembly.
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