Jacques Serais, edited by Laura Laplaud / Photo credit: XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
This year, July 14 will mark the national holiday but also the end of the “100 days” of appeasement set by Emmanuel Macron last April. Barely out of the pension episode, France has fallen into chaos in recent days with thousands of cars burned, hundreds of businesses looted and destroyed. Three months later, the results are far from convincing.
It’s the beginning of a week and the end of a political sequence. Friday July 14 will mark the symbolic end of the “100 days” set by Emmanuel Macron. If a speech by the head of state is expected for the national holiday and if the rumors of a reshuffle intensify, Elisabeth Borne is more committed than ever to defending her action.
Elisabeth Borne claims to have “delivered” Emmanuel Macron’s roadmap
On April 17, Emmanuel Macron tried to breathe new life into his five-year term just after the promulgation of the pension reform: “We have before us 100 days of appeasement, unity, ambition and action in the service of France,” he said. A delay seen as a reprieve for Elisabeth Borne at Matignon.
But 100 days later, the Prime Minister defends herself: “I see that most sites are green. We have delivered” the 100-day roadmap, she welcomes in the columns of the Parisian. She also made an appointment with the unions on Wednesday at Matignon for, according to her, “writing a new page together”. As if for her it was a question of taking the President to witness and demonstrating her desire to stay on rue de Varenne.
An “imminent” redesign
Still, some ministers and secretaries of state in his government, such as Pap Ndiaye at National Education, or Marlène Schiappa at Social and Solidarity Economy are more than ever in the hot seat. There is going to be an “imminent reshuffle” predicts an adviser. It must be said that the main objective of these 100 days – namely to achieve peace and unity in the country – turned out to be a failure.