French press review
Headlines: Borne stays at Matignon, Macron persists and signs
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Emmanuel Macron confirms Elisabeth Borne as Prime Minister, in an interview with AFP on June 25, 2022. © AP / Gonzalo Fuentes
By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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The president told Agence France Presse.
“
I have decided to confirm my confidence in Elisabeth Borne
”.
It is up to the Prime Minister to find a way to form a government in an arc going from the Communist Party to the right-wing party Les Républicains, excluding, therefore, La France insoumise and the National Rally.
But the French, indeed, are not happy with the Macron-Borne tandem.
According to an Ifop poll for
Le Journal du Dimanche
, 61% of them are unhappy with Emmanuel Macron, and 52% with Elisabeth Borne.
The sinking press for Macron
The weekly press is shipwreck like never before for Emmanuel Macron.
"
The macronie on the mat, behind the scenes of a disaster
", launches the front page of
L'Express.
“
In the Lepeno-Melanchonist vice, French tragedy,
” adds that of the weekly
Le Point
.
Emmanuel Macron, "
the relative president
", formulates that of
L'Obs.
That of
Marianne
wonders if Macron is “
out of harm's way?
".
Emmanuel Macron had begged French voters "
not to add French disorder to global disorder
", recalls
Le Point
.
“
He will have to face both simultaneously, and he bears his share of responsibility for this misfortune.
Since losing its parliamentary majority on June 19, France has become a political risk for Europe and a major subject of concern for our neighbors and our allies
,”
Le Point warns.
Macron facing his destiny
This president has two obsessions, summarizes
L'Express
: “
not to be the one who hands over power to a populist or a radical, like Barack Obama welcoming Donald Trump to the White House;
not be just a parenthesis in the history of the Fifth Republic
".
Sure of himself, Emmanuel Macron saw nothing coming.
“
The belching of a Jean-Luc Mélenchon, proclaiming his imminent arrival at Matignon every day, would, for sure, be enough to remobilize reasonable voters in a last gasp.
Failed
, ”points out
L’Express.
In Le Point
magazine
, an “
intimate
” of the president confirms that Macron “
never considered this scenario.
He may have fallen asleep on his laurels
(…)
He who wanted to put an end to demonetized parties – which he compared in 2016 to a
“friendly association of bowlers, without friendship and without balls” –
will remain like the one who resuscitated the combinazione of the Fourth Republic
”, insists this weekly.
Observation shared by
L'Obs
, which takes stock.
"
A united left, a tenfold extreme right, reinvigorated Republicans, a diminished majority: Emmanuel Macron finds himself besieged in the aftermath of a chaotic election.
His second five-year term promises to be infinitely more difficult than expected
.
Especially since the economic context is worrying, underlines
Marianne
.
“
While we were promised
“happy days”
after the Covid crisis, the French economy is sinking back into depression
”.
In
Marianne
, the sociologist Jérôme Fourquet remarks: "
We turn away from the voting booth today as we turned away from the church yesterday
".
And
Marianne
goes there with her formula: “
The polling stations are burning, and we are looking elsewhere!
These legislative elections have confirmed that voters are melting as fast as the ice floe
.
Rachel Keke, from shadow to light
The press finally greets the new entrants to the National Assembly.
Among these deputies, Rachel Keke.
According to
Paris Match
, Rachel Keke, a Franco-Ivorian housekeeper who led a strike against the management of the Ibis Batignolles hotel in Paris, is one of those who “
could play a major role for the next five years
”.
Rachel Keke?
She is, for
Paris Match,
“
the representative of the invisible
”.
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