After his election as mayor of Le Havre on Sunday evening, Edouard Philippe is received Monday morning at the Elysée Palace by Emmanuel Macron. The President must decide the fate of his Prime Minister. But each solution seems to involve a problem for the head of state.
Before receiving the Citizen's Climate Convention on Monday morning, Emmanuel Macron will meet face to face with his Prime Minister. It is a crucial week that begins for the future of the executive couple.
Because now Emmanuel Macron is at the bottom of the wall. Either he keep Edouard Philippe, or he takes him out. But whatever the option, it will be a problem for the President. If he separates from his Prime Minister, he makes him a political martyr. If he keeps it, he leaves Matignon someone who takes more light than him, who is much more popular than the head of state and whom the French designate as the one who can drive change, which annoys him.
After the electoral disaster on Sunday evening, Emmanuel Macron will have to show a lot of imagination, he who has never ceased to remember that he was going to reinvent himself. A few days ago, the President reminded journalists that he remained free to choose. "In 2017 I went to get a Prime Minister who did not campaign," he said. For his part, Edouard Philippe recalled that the President knew what he could do and not do. As if it was him who now had the cards in hand.