“There is no more reasonable”: this phrase by a close associate of Emmanuel Macronsummarizes the political crisis that today is experiencing France.
Emmanuel Macron is alone, besieged and prisoner of his own power, notes the French magazine Le Point. Since the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lekonri, the presidency in France appears as an exhausted system, swinging between obsession and denial, while the country sinks into an unprecedented political impasse.
A power that is isolated
The image that remained engraved in memory – that of a president who walks alone on the banks of the Seine after his prime minister’s resignation – is, according to Le Point, the symbol of a lonely fleeing forward.
Macron feeds on his own directing, as if he wants to show that he remains unmistakable in the storm. In the meantime, public debt is swollen, institutions are also shaking and France – once the seventh force of the world – is now treated by its European partners as a sick country.
According to many testimonies, the president’s associates no longer understand his decisions. Some speak of “blindness”, others of “complete cut off from reality”. The criticisms are up to his narrow circle: “It reminds me of an African dictator addicted to power,” a former minister confesses. Another states that he no longer knows how to defend him: “I feel like I am in the heart of a reactor who destroys the country.”
A majority in pieces and a country without a compass
Le Point’s analysis highlights the dismantling of the presidential camp, which is unable to unite around a common plan. The 210 remaining Members of the Center and the moderate right “have nothing in common”, beyond fear of early elections and the desire to prevent the rise of the national alarm.
It is an explosive situation where alliances are created and dissolved on the basis of political calculations, without any prospect of stability.
Even the former allies of the president – Francois Bairou, Eduardo Philippe and Gabriel Atal – turn his back on him. Others denounce his arrogance, others his intolerance. “He doesn’t hear anyone anymore,” sums up one of his close associates.
Macronism, by promise to a wreck
Macronism has reached the end of its cycle. Born by the confusion of the boundaries between the Right and the Left, he dies today of the confusion of his own values. Emmanuel Macron, who promised to overcome traditional camps, disrupted the power parties and now depends on the socialists and the Republicans to rule.
“The one who wanted to overturn the table, just broke the dishes,” says a former Elise official. With his insistence on embodied the democracy on his own, the president is isolated at the top of a fragile system, which is at the same time the creator and the prisoner.
The refusal of resignation
Despite calls for realism, Le Point stresses that Emmanuel Macron does not intend to leave. His environment is clear: “Never, Never, Never”. He believes that only he can save the country and allegedly prepares his return in 2032, convinced that his intelligence and energy remain unmatched.
This obsession, however, even concerns his old allies, who are afraid of a deep and constant democratic crisis. “He put himself at risk and with him the country,” one of his former supporter sums up.
A broader judgment of the system
In addition to the president’s personal portrait, Le Point sees the symptom of a deeper systemic crisis. France, the magazine writes, is going through a period of “complete confusion”, where no rule, no logic seems to be the case anymore. Institutions are weakened, the majority collapses and citizens’ confidence disappears.
This great deceit overcomes Macron himself; reflects the exhaustion of a democratic model, worn by the fragmentation, fatigue and depreciation of political elites.