Emmanuel Macron's dangerous game


sWhat are we living in? Are we living in a truce? Because it is indeed a truce that President Emmanuel Macron seems to be calling for after several weeks of votes, dissolution, resignations and other partisan score-settling, and during the Olympic Games in Paris.

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This Olympic truce could allow the French to enjoy carefree jubilation, even national pride. But what kind of truce are we talking about when reality catches up with the country every time? Should we remember that the opening of the Olympic Games on July 26 took place against the backdrop of attempts to shut down the entire SNCF railway network? France seems ready to get excited about the Olympics, but anger remains stubborn.

Constitutionalists are lost in speculation.

Anger that will only be postponed. See you at the beginning of the school year. Then it will be a matter of voting on a budget whose political consequences no one really foresees. So much so that the constitutionalists in France are lost in guesswork…

Read also How far will the French political shipwreck go? Can the resigned government resubmit its resignation? How long can the resigned government continue with current affairs? Can a minister sit in the National Assembly as a deputy? Many questions bear witness to the unprecedented climate of tension that the Olympic Games cannot hide. By trying to establish a truce in name only, is Emmanuel Macron not playing a dangerous game?


Tess Larson

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