• Emmanuel Macron will be sworn in as President of the Republic again on Saturday morning at the Elysée.

  • Two weeks after his election, it is an opportunity to give a little breath to the start of his mandate which is lacking.

  • For this, as often, Emmanuel Macron will place himself in the long history of France.

Emmanuel Macron was re-elected almost two weeks ago.

And since… since, not much.

The Castex government is still in place, and should be for another week.

The re-elected president took the floor to explain the period of "decantation" in which he found himself, but the start of Macron's new mandate seems to be out of breath.

While the left holds the upper hand in the media with its union, the investiture ceremony may be timely.

It will take place this Saturday from 11 a.m., and should last "between an hour and an hour and a half", specifies the Elysée.

At the Palace, we insist on making the ceremony a special event.

“It is not a re-investiture, it is indeed a new investiture”, one specifies.

Something to bring water to the mill of Emmanuel Macron who kept repeating, during the campaign, that he did not want to continue but to restructure his policy in a second term.

“He was re-elected but on a new program and a new method”, recalls the spokesperson for LREM, Maud Bregeon.

While since the second round, his opponents have not ceased to claim that he is the most poorly elected president of the Fifth Republic (which is false), the investiture will make it possible to reestablish the idea that "April 24 a clear choice was made by the French”, judges the walker.

It's a story

No question, therefore, of making a general policy speech.

After all, the program is known: "Everyone understood that his priorities were the reform of education and health," recalls Maud Bregeon.

“It will rather be a speech that will say the meaning he gives to his election, we explain on the side of the Elysée Palace. He will take stock of the history which has just been written and which will be written.

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Because Saturday's ceremony obviously does not have the symbolism of a transfer of power.

For a re-election, it is not traditional to go up the Champs-Elysées or do the traditional welcoming ceremony at the Paris City Hall.

It is therefore by summoning History - that with a "capital H", in the words of the Elysée - that Emmanuel Macron will try to make an impression.

"With this ceremony it is a question of saying 'the Republic is us', through him, specifies the palace. Once elected, the President of the Republic is the custodian of historical and political continuity. It is all the meaning of a ceremony that is part of a long path of traditions. »

The continuation of the memorial tour

For Emmanuel Macron, this desire to anchor is not new: his first mandate was punctuated by multiple commemorations.

"As the president is the one of political overcoming, if he does not want to be completely above ground, he must be attached to something, and that something is the history of France", explained his ex -Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, in the France 2 documentary "One Hundred Days" dedicated to the beginning of the mandate of the presidents of the Fifth Republic.

The solemnity wanted by Emmanuel Macron in these moments, from the staging of the Louvre on the evening of his 2017 election, is "a form of compensation for his youth", analyzes Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Except that now, the story is also that of his first five-year term.

And the Elysée has indicated that among the guests (450 in total) will be personalities from the sectors of activity that have marked the last five years "and who will very likely, particularly with regard to what he intends to undertake, at the heart of the action of the second five-year term".

Personalities from the health, youth, elected officials and sports sectors… are particularly expected. 

What to regain control, at least on the media field?

The left-wing opposition sets the bar high with the big rout of its unit organized in the afternoon.

There remains, in any case, in the pocket of Emmanuel Macron the card of his new Prime Minister and his new government to try to really launch his mandate.

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