Since the election, it has become evident that some on the right have engaged in skillful contortions to demonstrate that they are “Macron-compatible,” hoping for a ministerial position or at least an electable constituency.
Others, like Bruno Le Maire, have donned a new suit without hesitation, hoping for a promising future. Meanwhile, on the left, from where the new president is supposed to come, there remains much distrust of this “Rothschild banker” who wants to reform the Labor Code and modernize the State and economy that are in dire need of it.
The composition of the government, which took a long time, reflects the complexity of the political situation.
Like apothecaries in their back rooms, everyone is keenly analyzing the grand formula proposed by the new governors to determine if there will be a touch of socialism in the liberalism or a small dose of liberal measures in a “Hollandaise” sauce already served but revisited by Edouard Philippe and his boss.
After Emmanuel Macron’s victory, which was anything but certain just three months ago, there is no shortage of postures. This election has reshuffled the decks of the parties established around the table for fifty years. New alliances will form. New fractures will divide. Neither the right nor the left will be spared in this still-uncertain reconfiguration.
Because, after the legislative elections, depending on their outcome, the tectonic plates of political politics will continue to shift. Personalities on the right already desire to join the “March,” surely out of sincerity, but also to avoid stagnation for five years. Should the result of the polls favor the executive, this small wave, which currently includes only about thirty names on its list, will transform into a powerful current.
Conversely, if the French refuse to grant a clear majority to the new resident of the Élysée, a backlash for the executive is almost assured. Manuel Valls’s “soft” left, Cambadélis, and their “friends” will then no longer be able to make themselves heard. Unlike Mélenchon’s “pure” left, already prepared to fight for a third social round.
The Macron-Philippe duo will thus now embark on a new journey, interesting because unknown, but also lined with thorns. They will have their noses to the grindstone. Simply because, given the state of the country, they have no other choice…
The era is one of suits with variable geometry.
