Oh, how the French president is being persuaded today in European newspapers!
It seems that everyone is so fed up with his arrogance and narcissism that now a reason has turned up to honestly and openly talk about it and pour out bile, without fear that someone will judge.
"Slap", "political earthquake", "shock", "humiliating defeat", "slap", "bitter rejection".
What headlines were invented for the surprising, but in many ways logical outcome of the parliamentary elections.
Macron lost his majority: instead of 345 seats in the last convocation, he now has only 235. Several of his ministers from the new cabinet have also lost, they will have to resign.
In general, for Macron, this is, of course, a failure.
Hence the silence on the air from his side all last night.
He really does not like to lose - his environment knows this very well.
The French joked until night that the president was silent, because he turned to American consultants from the McKinsey firm for help in picking up words for a fee of a couple of thousand euros.
But in the end, the Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne had to find these words.
It turned out a dry, restrained speech with notes of bitterness and an attempt to reconcile with rivals, they say, now we should work together.
But how disastrous this is, was shown by the very first joint discussions of representatives of the parties following the results of the parliamentary elections on the country's main television channels.
In fact, there was no discussion.
It was a stream of mutual claims, accusations, noise, din and squabbles.
Representatives of the Macron movement looked pale and depressed, the opposition openly mocked and poked at a whole series of mistakes that led Macron to such a result.
The problem is that in the absence of an absolute majority, it will be difficult for him to pass his reforms.
You can, of course, apply a special article of the Constitution, which allows you to approve the law without any discussion, bypassing the lower house.
But every use of such leverage is fraught with social unrest.
And Macron has no one to negotiate with.
The second largest block is the united left-wing nuPes led by Jean-Luc Melanchon.
The Macron team throughout the last week bowed him as soon as she could.
She called extremists, scandalists, enemies of the police and republican values, opponents of European treaties and the dieters in Moscow.
People who in a decent democratic society will give hands to people.
And then - bang!
- This is the main opposition block - 141 armchairs, and they need to go with an outstretched hand in search of support.
An excellent speaker, 70-year-old Jean-Luc Mélenchon, speaking yesterday after the announcement of the preliminary results, almost lost his voice with enthusiasm, he was so emotional.
And he spoke so bitingly that I will quote: “This is a complete defeat of the presidential party, and it does not have any majority.
We succeeded, we achieved the political goals that we set for ourselves: in less than a month to throw off the one who is full of arrogance, who held the whole country in his hands in order to win, without letting us understand why this is necessary.
In this, many saw the main mistake of Macron.
He did not take part in the election campaign at all, as if the deed had already been done or would be done by itself.
He promoted not so much his program as his own image of Jupiter, which many ordinary citizens were already very tired of.
Legends can be written about his arrogance and exclusivity.
In general, the rate at his headquarters was made to distract attention from internal problems, switching it to external ones, where the president appears in the form of a large international player who takes steps, sleeps in a tent next to the French military (Aki Napoleon), performs "risky" trips that take over the entire broadcast of TV channels, makes statements on behalf of the whole of Europe - in a word, lives in the clouds of the European Union.
What about France?
He did not manage to intimidate the French with the Ukrainian theme again, as he successfully did before the presidential elections.
They ate scary stories.
The people are already tired of hearing about the war THERE, when the prices for food, fuel and utilities are growing HERE and have never been connected with a special operation.
And Macron offered nothing to the French in the last week before the vote, except for helping Ukraine and further pumping it with weapons.
Marine Le Pen, on the contrary, only spoke about the well-being of people.
She consistently went to the people, supported her candidates - and here is the result: instead of six seats in the previous convocation, there are immediately 89 in the new one.
Her headquarters hoped to get at least 40 pieces. So the results were also perceived by her as a complete and undeniable victory.
Le Pen has overcome several important barriers.
She will now lead the third largest parliamentary group, receive state funding, deal with debts.
In addition, she has enough deputies to pass a vote of no confidence in the government.
And there is the necessary number of people to single-handedly submit Macron's bills for consideration by the Constitutional Council.
In a word, put sticks in the wheels of the president at every turn.
Macron's supporters are not in vain afraid that the work of the National Assembly will be paralyzed,
they may be bound hand and foot.
It is difficult to manage in such a configuration, but to lend a hand to Le Pen is generally beyond the bounds for them.
So only moderate right - Republicans and democrats remain for the coalition.
But even those have a grudge against Macron since the time of François Fillon, who was drowned in the last elections by a criminal case brought just before the first round of voting.
The head of the Republican Party, Christian Jacob, now says that he was, is and will remain in opposition, he is not looking for and does not want any unification with Macron.
That's how the president was left alone.
Of course, he will have a painstaking work to search for renegades in the ranks of rivals, but there are many of them, and there is nothing to seduce them.
Under such conditions, it is difficult to imagine how, for example, the pension reform will be adopted, the author of which, by the way, lost in his constituency.
The cancellation of more than 40 preferential categories, increasing the age of retirement is where Melanshon and Le Pen will make a united front against Macron, so now he himself will be behind a barrier political barrier, which previously urged to be elevated against left -wing and right competitors.
Boomerang returns sooner or later, and popularity tends to fade over the years, especially if it is not supported by real deeds.
Macron believed that after the presidential elections it was in the bag, that the tactics already tried and tested would work, but the realities were changing rapidly.
So, as before, it will no longer be.
Society is split into at least three parts.
Those who did not have time to understand this, in fact, are now facing their stillborn second five-year plan, which risks turning into a series of social crises with the potential possibility of dissolving parliament.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.