Every morning, Nicolas Beytout analyzes political news and gives us his opinion.
This Monday, he is interested in the tense climate against a background of physical and verbal violence while we expected a "movida" with the new phase of deconfinement and the return of good weather.
The slap received by Emmanuel Macron, the throws of flour in the face of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François de Rugy, Nicolas Beytout is struck by the climate that has settled in France.
It was quite unpredictable.
Last week, restaurants and bars reopened after seven months of closure and the curfew that weighed on the morale of many French people was eased, so we expected a wave of pleasure in living and going out.
What we called the Movida.
And patatras, the news is populated only by violence, tension, confrontations and balance of power.
Violence in politics?
Yes, to physical violence, but also to verbal violence.
Social networks have considerably worsened this trend and they have, behind anonymity, disinhibited speech, and sometimes actions.
But that does not explain everything.
The electoral campaign, too, creates a context of confrontation.
Because the themes that have emerged in the debate revolve a lot around insecurity.
While security issues are not a regional competence.
Right, the regions must take care of transport, high schools, vocational training, economy and tourism, not security.
But the extreme right has decided to systematically put forward this subject and that of immigration.
Two areas in which the government's record is not good.
And on security, it worked!
It suffices to observe the countryside in the Paca region, with the head of the RN list Thierry Mariani who promises a "shield region".
Or in Ile-de-France where Laurent Saint-Martin, the head of the list La République en Marche spoke of the constitution of a regional police force.
As for Valérie Pécresse, she was even sharper.
She decided that, if she was re-elected, the region would seize this security competence and would also get involved in the construction of prison places.
What about immigration?
Here too, the National Rally succeeded in imposing the debate.
The proof, last week, between two stages of his Tour de France and before the G7 summit, Emmanuel Macron called a meeting at the Elysee Palace on immigration and on the expulsions of illegal aliens, and Gérald Darmanin immediately let it be known that he had mobilized the prefects to toughen the sanctions against foreigners causing disturbances to public order.
All this creates a strange climate, far removed from that je ne sais quoi of recklessness that we hoped to feel at the time of the end of the health crisis.
There are still a lot of people outside, the stores are full and the weather is with us.
Yes, it is the gradual return to a normal economy, and it is to be hoped that the announced growth boom will be there. But, and we know it since the defeat of Lionel Jospin almost 20 years ago, the economic performances often bow before the questions of daily life and security.