World News: Macron’s New Government Experiences Temblors

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Category: World News - Europe

Published on Monday, 16 September 2024 10:50

Written by Olivier Longhi

The upcoming appointment of a new government will not erase the weeks of uncertainty that the country has suffered, at the risk of the extremes strengthening even more. However, what can we expect in the years to come?

After the suspense of the appointment of the Prime Minister, it is the turn of the composition of the Government to be the object of all speculation. However, if, as Michel Barnier, Matignon's new tenant, said, there will be a government next week (meaning the one that opens tomorrow Monday), few are those who expect much, even more so, from the miracles of this new executive team.

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To tell the truth, while the parliamentary left is already up in arms against the pension reform which, along with the 2025 budget, will be the two pharaonic projects of the future Government, there is already an atmosphere of the end of Macronia's reign.

Moreover, the President of the Republic has not particularly hidden it, multiplying the interventions through which he affirms that he will limit himself to his function stricto sensu of guarantor of the Constitution and head of diplomacy leaving it to Michel Barnier's team to govern, intend to take the blows in his place by putting the former European Commissioner in the front line.

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Cornelian Dilemma

Cynical? Yes, certainly, but also terribly and banally political on the part of a man who has not digested the setback of the dissolution and who is now wondering about the content of the three years that remain to him as head of state.

The dilemma is a difficult one. To invest himself as he has done until now, to the point of saturating the space and working on an image of rejection; to make way for the second head of the executive in order to take on a form of height, like Jupiter in the heart of Olympus, spectator of the harassment and hazards of mortals. Here again, the President will have to choose, he who at the end of his term will have to give up his chair for a successor whose task is already proving complicated.

Will the successor in question, man or woman, succeed? No one knows, but there is no shortage of contenders, transforming the period that is opening into a pre-election campaign. If the traditional and historical opponents are legion and known, there are also some in the Macronist ranks, tired or tired of the one who in 2017 seemed to open the way to a new world.

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Wrung out and burned by the disappointment of the dissolution and the thumbing of the nose at the Constitution by appointing a Prime Minister who does not come from the ranks of the party, even if he is the result of an alliance, who came out on top in the assembly, many supporters have decided to free themselves from the tutelage of François Hollande's former Minister of Finance. In concrete terms and ultimately, what can we expect from the next three years?

From a legislative point of view, a management of current affairs sprinkled with an impression of large-scale reform, the obligation to confront the public deficit that has become abysmal (i.e. 5.1% of the GDP which itself amounts to 2805 billion euros), trying to get the law on pensions passed without recourse to 49.3; From a political point of view, to give the impression that the country is no longer in a situation of dereliction in order to give a democracy in full doubt followed by extremes quick to use any vacillation to impose itself. In the end, there will be a lot to do.

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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.