Macron places his second term under the sign of novelty and action

PFor his inauguration speech, Emmanuel Macron presented himself on Saturday morning under the gilding and chandeliers of the Élysée village hall as a “new president” for a “new mandate”. Anxious to mark a break with the previous five years, the Head of State therefore devoted his first speech of his second five-year term to outlining the “course” of his presidency, to specifying the “new method” he intends adopt, “foundation of the rebirth democratic”. And as if to ward off the curse of re-election, which in political history has often rhymed with inaction, the founder of En Marche! reiterated his desire to resume his plan to transform the country. “I will have only one compass: to serve “, he swore, to make France a…