“We have to stop whining”

Emmanuel Macron intends to have the majority in the National Assembly. From Sunday June 12, 2022, French voters are called upon to vote for the first round of legislative elections. A situation which seems to worry the President of the Republic more and more, while the Nupes, New Popular Ecological and Social Union, is gaining ground in the voting intentions, making the presidential majority fear the loss of some seats, but also , to find themselves faced with a cohabitation. More than ever concerned about such a scenario, it was a combative Emmanuel Macron who presented himself to his ministers, on June 1, during the weekly Council. “Go support the candidates in their constituencies, those which are not won in advance and where your presence can make a difference”he thus inveighed against his government, as reported The chained Duck.

As he calls on his ministers to “help candidates to scratch some extra points”but also to denounce the program of Nupes, which according to him is “a program of prohibitions”Emmanuel Macron was also firm, accusing his government of being too passive or defeatist. “You have to stop whining, to fall into catastrophism. It’s either nobody moves or everyone tears up. We just have to mobilize”he confided to his relatives, still according to The chained Duck. He also put on the table the question of the program of the outgoing majority, which is more than ever to be put forward. “We have to show what we are going to do, including when you have the impression that the French already know it because it is in our program. Nobody knows the programs”he thus assured, calling in particular not to “underestimating the media’s ability to resell as a new announcement something that is already in [leur] project”.

Emmanuel Macron has “his expiry date on his forehead”

A little boost for Emmanuel Macron, who was re-elected last April for a five-year term, knowing that this will be his last opportunity to apply his program. Indeed, the Constitution stipulates that a French head of state cannot present himself more than twice in a row for his own re-election. “It has its expiry date stuck on the forehead”thus tackled a “leading minister” in the columns of Parisianwhile an adviser assures that he has even less time left than that. “The quinquennium will take place in two stages: until the European elections, it will be the time of reforms. Then, it will be that of succession”he said, giving 2024 as the deadline, not 2027.