Emmanuel Macron has been elected, but now he must create the conditions to govern.
This means that for him, nothing is finished, but everything is just beginning.
Several questions accumulate and intertwine.
How and with whom, in the coming days, should the new “Macronian” political offer be established?
How to govern quickly when the campaign for the legislative elections, the true third round of this presidential election, is opening?
How, in one month, can he secure a sufficient share of the National Assembly to avoid being an emasculated President, barely elected and already a hostage to the political maneuvers of other groups?
And all this while a third of potential voters have chosen either not to vote or to cast a blank vote—the other historic result of Sunday?
While the Socialists are torn between the social-liberals of Valls, the legitimate followers of Hollande, and the dissenters, each group having its vision of alliances, they will play for their survival to avoid being annexed by a movement driven by the momentum of victory?
While the Republicans (supporters of Fillon, Sarkozy, and others) dream of recovering by toppling the one who disrupted and defeated them, depriving them of power they dreamed of and, for some among them, had already started sharing?
While the far right, evidently rooted, has not said its last word and intends to weigh in with the more than 10 million votes cast in its favor?
While the Unsubmissive of Mélenchon and other leftist movements will not grant any grace period to the one they have made the embodiment of capitalism and a vision of Europe they detest?
We must hope that Emmanuel Macron has the resilience to tackle what awaits him.
In any case, he better have it, because it is very challenging.
However, he has significant assets: he is young, full of self-confidence, and optimistic.
Then, as Seneca wrote in “On Providence,” “a steep path begins my career.”
In the last resort, we can always call upon Providence!
by Garibaldino
