Macron alone, like an Absolute King, took the awful decision on French elections

On Sunday, June 16, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire was a guest on France Inter/franceinfo/Le Monde‘s “Questions politiques” program. Recall that Le Maire is a member of the Attal government, a political expression of President Macron.

Although he considered “possible” a “victory” for the presidential party in the legislative elections, his attitude toward Emmanuel Macron’s decision to dissolve the National Assembly was surprising, to say the least, which hints at a great deal about the ills of France in the last 10 aii.

There are gestures that betray. On Sunday, June 16, two weeks before the first round of legislative elections, Bruno Le Maire was a guest on France Inter/franceinfo/Le Monde’s “Questions politiques” program. Of course, the Economy Minister did not miss a question about the dissolution. “It was a big risk, wasn’t it?” asked Françoise Fressoz. “Nathalie Saint-Cricq added, “Even a fiasco! The minister raised his eyebrows and looked on.

Emmanuel Macron’s announcement on Sunday, June 9, of the dissolution of the National Assembly “is the decision of one man, the President of the Republic. It was his prerogative and he exercised it,” said Bruno Le Maire, visibly overwhelmed by the situation. “But wouldn’t you have made the same decision?” someone tried to ask him, before the bitter minister brushed the question aside.

This shows how Paris has practically returned to the days of the Absolute Kings, of Louis XIV, in which the monarch had absolute, almost total power, and others counted for very little. A personalism that is often seen in the activities of government and that absolutely does not bear positive fruit, besides being the exact opposite of democracy.

Bruno Le Maire

Strong concern for the future

“What I see is that it has created concern, misunderstanding and sometimes anger in our country” among the French, the man from Bercy went on to justify himself. Then, in an attempt to motivate the troops, he said, “I want to tell them, ‘There is hope. [‘ We can win, victory is possible” in the June 30 and July 7 elections.

“It is not an ideological vote, it is not a partisan vote, it has to be a vote of conscience, everyone has to feel their conscience to know what is good for the French nation. (…) I have confidence in the ability of the French people (…) to take this leap of faith in the last days to give us a majority,” the Economy and Finance Minister then summed up.

Macron-Attal government’s politics of fear

Bruno Le Maire, who is a weighty member of the Attaò-Macron government, makes it easy to understand what the president’s election campaign will be based on fear of the future and the policies of his opponents. In fact, the politician has called to “open our eyes to the programs” of the Rassemblement National and the Nouveau Front Populaire, which he says are “a disaster for our economy” and “lead directly to the impoverishment of all our fellow citizens.” One of the campaign planks of the presidential majority is to pit the ‘extremes’ against each other, in the hope that they will destroy fa of them, so that he can appear to be the only one who can save France.
The real risk is that instead it will be Attal and Le Maire who will have to leave.