It had been a long time since the French did not promise a televised political show of this magnitude. I had everything. Emmanuel Macron, in full prime time, He went down to the cathodic sand to debate with respected civil society characters in their respective fields in the public chain TF1. 15 minutes with each one. With the general secretary of the CGT union, Sophie Binet, spoke about pensions and employment; with the mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard, about security; with the ultraliberal essayist Agnès Verdier-Molinié, on public finances; and with sports experimentist Charles Bietry, who suffers from Charcot’s disease and whose voice was reproduced by artificial intelligence, about dignified death. Prepared, quiet, he showed that he dominates the trade. Another thing is that his mandate is already too close to the end to excite someone again, even to himself for more than three hours of program.
In an intervention centered at the beginning on foreign policy, Macron announced his intention to convene “several referendums in the coming months”, to the “same time.” Consultations would be related to “great economic reforms”, education and social. On a possible referendum on immigration, as requested [el relativo al referéndum que permite al jefe del Estado convocarlo con el apoyo del Ejecutivo] and that is effective. ”
“From here to June, the government will propose several reforms (…) and on that basis we will see if we go to the referendum,” he said. One of the issues on the table, which Macron did not exclude, is to consult the French about the approval of a law on dignified death.
Macron landed on the confident set. But he received a very hard video of citizens criticizing their management rawly. “A president who has sent us to war.” “It has ruined us.” Also a severe survey. How does France evolve? 67% think that bad. “Thank you for this hot reception,” the Head of the State ironized. “This country has always had a form of pessimism about itself. It is a difficult time, so I have come,” he admitted. “The challenge of challenges is to be free,” he launched to introduce the first block.
This initial part of his televised intervention dealt with war. “The war must Cesar and Ukraine must be in the best possible situation to enter the negotiations. A high fire is what allows to improve the humanitarian situation and enter discussions that will allow to address territorial issues,” he defended without contributing many news.
Nor about whether Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will attend the meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, to try to reach a high fire agreement. “But it was Putin who proposed to resume discussions in Turkey and Zelenski said he was willing to do so. As always, we expect Russia’s response,” he criticized, while the realization punctured a video on the front from the front of the Ukrainian soldiers claiming more help.
Macron, comfortable in the international block, which has kept him standing in recent months, accepted that the USA can no longer even guarantee European security. “American interests are less and less in Europe. Today is the America First and the Chinese obsession. Today we still need them, but we would be irresponsible if we do not organize so that in five years we can be more independent, ”he said. In addition, the Chief of the French State refused to qualify as genocide the slaughter of civilians by Israel in Gaza.“ It does not touch a president to qualify him like this, but to a historian. […]. But I can say that what the Netanyahu government does today is unacceptable. ”
France attends a strange physical phenomenon for months. Internal policy is paralyzed, as if its protagonists were sounded. Out, on the other hand, the dynamic shows a world that revolves at an increasing and more difficult speed to decipher. Macron himself, formerly omnipresent in domestic issues and whose popularity evaporated after the disastrous dissolution of the National Assembly last June, disregarded the country and appointed as prime minister François Bayrou, a politician so centrist and worried about pleasing all that he has become transparent, and has strictly focused on the issues that the Constitution and external.
A few hours after completing three years from his second legislature, decorchating the final stretch of a mandate with aroma at the end of the time, the head of the State tries to recover control of the legislature.
The second block that Macron faced was that of employment. The general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, managed to start a novel confession: she will not turn back in pension reform. Nor will citizens be consulted on that issue. Binet insisted on putting Spain as an example of good management, growth and increase in social coverage. Macron did not want to buy the argument. “Spain works less than us? Do you pay more? No.
Macron seeks to rehabilitate his legacy, but also draw future perspectives, aware that the absence of a majority in Parliament has paralyzed in a lasting, almost definitive way, the action of the government.
The media and right -wing mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard, asked the president with his usual direct language. “Why can’t a municipal policeman ask for the papers to someone, consult the criminal archives? It is absurd.” Macron proved him right and opened to those security forces to work under the mandate of the Prosecutor’s Office to have more authority. On the lack of space in French prisons, the president was willing to rent places in the prisons of other countries.
At the end of the program, 3 hours and 15 minutes after having begun, Macron wrote live and in a Bleta the commitment to the French that he will keep from here at the end of his mandate. “Still being free: a stronger army, a more independent economy, a protected and educated youth. We will achieve it.”
