This Saturday, Catherine Nay decrypts the end of the political truce, after the fire of Notre-Dame, and the holding of the first press conference of the president.

Hello Catherine,

Hello Bernard, hello everyone.

The political truce imposed by the fire of Notre-Dame has shaken up Emmanuel Macron's plans. Thursday, at the Elysee, a week later, Emmanuel Macron, will make his ads to the French after the Great debate. He will answer questions from journalists. This will be his first press conference.

How to regain control of a situation from which he has lost control? The President had built his media sequence in the greatest secrecy, in two stages: Monday night, a 20-minute speech on the television trailer. He launched a few measures to appeal to the citizen, and then unwind the thread, its consistency, meaning, what is called the "story telling" of Act 2 of his five-year term. His ministers themselves had only been informed that the night before, at 8:00 pm, the decisions he was going to take, to avoid leaks. Emmanuel Macron wanted to create a surprise. He had just recorded his address when the first flames arose from the roof of Notre Dame.

He stopped everything, more talk the urgency was elsewhere. But the next day, the secret was stale. There were at least 20 people around him for the recording!

So no more surprise effect! We even said: he has the "scoumoun".

Yes, except that according to the polls, the French have received his ads. The reindexing on inflation of pensions lower than 2,000 euros; the suspension of the closure of schools and hospitals until the end of the five-year period; the RIC, a citizens' initiative referendum on local issues only. But there were also some annoying topics, such as the removal of two holidays, to finance the dependency or the removal of the ENA, which appeared as a scalp offered to "yellow vests" that protest against the elite, very démago.

And this presidential truce has also been well received.

The French judged that Emmanuel Macron had played well in front of Notre Dame. At a time when there was a desire for fraternity and communion, he knew how to express the sadness of the French, Christians as atheists, and give an immediate signal of rebound. "We will rebuild Our Lady", and he took three points in the polls.

He said it again Tuesday since the Elysee in chief of building site which fixed a deadline: 5 years. What immediately fed a trial in precipitation. Another on the nature of reconstruction: the same or more modern, and with what materials, on which was grafted the bad quarrel on the amount of the gifts, the criticism against the generous donors, the distrust with regard to the rich is unfortunately a French characteristic.

In summary, Emmanuel Macron is back in the polls. Some measures are rather well received, not so well by the opposition, but it was known in advance. Finally, this bad luck is perhaps a chance.

Anyway, he plays big. On Thursday, he will hold his first press conference. This means that he changes his method with journalists. He agrees to answer their questions. His idea is to humanize this meeting and give depth to its subject. But we must hope that he will not reproduce with our colleagues his campaigns for the Great Debate, with the mayors, the intellectuals. Two minutes of questions to each for 30 minutes of answers. The meeting being fixed at 18h, the one-man show could end at midnight. It's both his talent and his fault: he talks too much. But as too many taxes kill the tax, too much speech kills speech.

The project having been fanned, his speech must necessarily change a little.

The leaks, which he regretted, serve a little test ball. Given the reactions, it can strengthen some proposals, 2 or 3 news that would crystallize the attention, correct others. You know, as on a painting when we talk about the painter's repentance. Thus, according to his relatives, Emmanuel Macron does not want to remove the ENA, he wants to transform, nuance.