Laura Laplaud
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08:54, April 20, 2023
Guest of Europe Matin Thursday, Ludovic Vigogne, journalist at “L’Opinion” and author of “Les sans jours. Macron: the secrets of a bad patch”, looks back on the first months of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. His choices, his behavior, his attitudes that the French have not really understood.
In The daylessLudovic Vigogne, journalist at the newspaper Opinion analyzes the failed beginnings of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term, as he writes, but also his relations with his Prime Ministers. According to him, there would be “a real hatred” between the current head of state and Édouard Philippe.
“He couldn’t stand it anymore”
This “hate began at the end of Matignon where Emmanuel Macron had a very bad experience of the light that Edouard Philippe concentrated. He simply couldn’t stand it anymore. And the months that followed, it completely degenerated since Emmanuel Macron took badly the desire for independence of his former Prime Minister because he believes that the mayor of Le Havre owed him everything”, details Ludovic Vigogne.
The current head of state would not have appreciated this famous phrase from Édouard Philippe: “I am loyal but free”, justifying his departure from Matignon. According to Emmanuel Macron, Édouard Philippe would be responsible for the criticism around the management of the health crisis. “These are decisions taken together, the good ones as well as the bad ones. However, there is one who has the impression of paying the price for all the bad ones. And Emmanuel Macron has the impression that it is up to Edouard Philippe that we attribute all the good ones. So he saw it in an extremely unfair way”, indicates the author of The dayless.
“Normally, the Prime Minister is the fuse. Here, it happened in the opposite direction,” he concludes.