Christine Clerc – What if Macron actually paid for his contempt for Parliament

” VDid you sing without the chosen ones? I am glad. Well, dance alone, now! This is perhaps how La Fontaine would have translated the message sent to Emmanuel Macron by the record abstention from this first round of legislative elections. Much has been said about the weariness or indifference of voters, forced to return to the polls on a beautiful Sunday in June, just two months after voting for the presidency.

But if their massive choice to go fishing rather than go to the polling stations was also – was first – a form of retort launched at a President of the Republic so disrespectful of Parliament? For five years, hasn’t Macron repeatedly shown his desire to reduce the role of deputies and senators by entrusting their tasks to…