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SUNDAY NOTEBOOKS. By postponing his choice for Matignon too much, the president risks appearing undecided. Meanwhile, the PS is digging its grave…
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By Herve Gattegno
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On wondered if the investiture ceremony at the Élysée on Saturday morning would unveil a Macron 2 different from the Macron 1. No obvious difference listening to his speech, but a major novelty: the president arrived early, spoke less time than announced and, if he then willingly lent himself to the game of effusions, hugs and whispers with his guests, the whole thing ended earlier than the protocol had planned. How to interpret this unusual eagerness, when he makes the French linger before presenting them with the one who will lead the government after Jean Castex? Mystery. Perhaps he simply feels that, the electoral campaign not having excited many people, the French are in a hurry to take action. “To act”, in fact, fu…
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name has become synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the appeal of June 18, has established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during his presidency, he became after his death a myth, an ideal politician that on the right and on the left we begin to regret.
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