World News: Macron Finally Settles on a Prime Minister
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- Category: World News - Europe
- Published on Monday, 09 September 2024 19:12
- Written by Olivier Longhi
After receiving a host of suitors, the President of the Republic has appointed Michel Barnier as Prime Minister and has trampled on the results of the legislative elections, showing misplaced pride and affirming his clearly right-wing orientation.
While Emmanuel Macron has just appointed Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, several questions arise, particularly about the respect due to the results of the legislative elections, the political precedent created by the current situation and the desire shown for years by the President of the Republic to bring France into a new world that breaks with the old.
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However, it appears that, out of ego combined with the desire not to witness the partial or total unravelling of his first and current second five-year term, the President of the Republic has trampled on the results of the ballot boxes called for an early legislative election on 30 June and 7 July.
Denial of Democracy
It is not excessive to evoke here a denial of democracy, and an insult made, thrown in the face of the voters who voted for the New Popular Front, the majority in the Assembly, in a relative and fragmented way in a most fragile coalition, but a majority all the same.
The second point, and not the least, is perhaps to be included in the learning of democratic compromise (historians will be able to define it in the years to come) the precedent created by the appointment of a conservative Prime Minister whose function as a liege man is beyond doubt, responsible for expediting the end of a five-year term that promises to be long and painful.
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By appointing Michel Barnier, a man of the right, Emmanuel Macron is paving the way for the possibility for his successors to free themselves from the results of the ballot box, which in a democracy is simply not possible because electoral results are the very heart of the system that prevails in France.
Last point, after having received a host of suitors for the Hôtel Matignon, including Xavier Bertrand and Bernard Cazeneuve, always with the aim of breaking with the old world which ultimately turns out to be more of a figment of the mind than a material, social or political reality, Emmanuel Macron who feared installing a man from the past in the building built by Louis XV for his favorite Madame de Pompadour, has appointed a European Commissioner almost forgotten by the general public, elected for the first time as a general councilor of Savoy in 1973, while President Macron was born in 1977.
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Some could, and rightly wonder, about the contours of the new world sought by this appointment, which looks more like thanks for good and loyal services to the Nation than a political and institutional response dictated by the imperatives of the moment. Let us not hesitate to affirm it: from a failed dissolution, we have moved on to an appointment that is just as unsuccessful.
This gave the National Rally a victory by proxy, which saw in Matignon a conservative whom the far-right party would not oppose frontally or indirectly, only too happy to beat the New Popular Front. While waiting for a future government, there remains in Marianne's mouth a bitter taste of political injustice and unbearable constitutional manipulation.
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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently a professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist and recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, was a press and publishing consultant, and was a communications consultant.
