For our editorialist Michaël Darmon, Emmanuel Macron has abandoned the silent presidency he wanted to break with the chatty presidency of François Hollande.
In reality, the head of state is trying to be part of a national history for the presidential election of 2022.
EDITORIAL
A rather productive isolation: far from remaining silent during his week spent at La Lanterne, due to his contamination with Covid-19, Emmanuel Macron wanted to speak directly to the French. By a video posted on Twitter, but also by delivering a river interview to "L'Express", in the middle of the week. For our columnist, Michaël Darmon, expressing himself in the media would have almost become the head of state's cute sin. He seeks to lay the foundations for his future presidential campaign, in 2022.
"We are far from the rare presidential word! We remember that at the beginning of the quinquennium, the macronists boasted of ending the chatty presidency of François Hollande. Power was obviously the world of silence. Today, the President Macron saturates the media space.
This year he will have intervened a good ten times in the media.
The situation is extraordinary, it is true: health crisis, terrorist attacks, not to mention the tributes to personalities.
These are all essential opportunities for President Macron to intervene.
"Not anchored in a political tradition"
But alongside these imposed figures, there are also free figures.
Let us think of these river talks given by the President of the Republic to Le
Point
, two weeks ago, and to
L'Express
, this week.
These two interviews are in fact linked: they want to fill a gap.
'Emmanuel Macron did not succeed in being anchored in a land, a political tradition', people say around him.
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In
L'Express
, he writes at length on the convulsions of the French soul and, in
Le Point
, he expands on his relationship to writers and words.
He even confided in it: his favorite word is saxifrage, a small flower that manages to grow between the rocks.
We can guess the self-portrait of the literate and intellectual president.
Moreover, the president confirms it: the Pantheon is the temple of the Republic.
'The French language is my homeland,' he says.
No doubt: the President is knocking on the door of the national novel
It is therefore a question of laying the foundations for a future presidential campaign by being part of a national history.
To get closer to the French, he bypasses the traditional media.
At the Brut news site: an interview lasting over two hours.
For news magazines: dozens of pages.
In fact, Emmanuel Macron does not bypass the questioning of journalists but seeks to regain control over speaking time.
He is no longer the master of the clocks
It has also become the hallmark of his five-year term: he suffered from events and is no longer the famous master of the clocks of 2017. It is far from the blessed time of the seven or eight hours of marathon in front of the elected officials. during the 'great national debate' broadcast on the news channels.
During this period, we heard no criticism from the Elysee on these channels continuously.
It must be said that only one person occupied the screen: himself.
After the episode 'of the President who has the Covid but who works anyway', there will be the December 31 wishes.
In 2021, Emmanuel Macron will accompany the year François Mitterrand.
For the Head of State, reinventing oneself is like diving into the archives of history. "