Alexis Delafontaine with AFP 06:48, April 17, 2023

Emmanuel Macron addresses the French this Monday at 20 p.m. A speech that should be turned towards the rest of the quinquennium. However, to pick up the pieces after three months of intense social crisis, and with an executive damaged by the use of 49.3 and still deprived of a majority in the Assembly, the task promises to be immense. All eyes are now on Les Républicains.

What's next for the five-year term? Emmanuel Macron addresses the French on Monday at 20 p.m. to give his prospects after the promulgation of the pension reform, in an atmosphere of persistent political crisis and with unions turned towards May 1.

The President of the Republic did not promulgate the pension reform live on television, as he had done for the first emblematic reforms of his first term in 2017. However, Emmanuel Macron has not dragged. The publication in the Official Journal just hours after its partial validation by the Constitutional Council was experienced as a new provocation by opponents. "Until the end contempt," said the boss of the CFDT, Laurent Berger.

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Emmanuel Macron receives the executives of the majority and several ministers before his speech

Emmanuel Macron, who will receive in the afternoon ministers and leaders of the majority, wants to the French "draw perspectives for the weeks and months to come" and "intends to sketch the sites", continues his entourage. It is a question of "reaffirming the course that is its - republican order, full employment and reindustrialization, progress on a daily basis - but also to restore an overall coherence to its action". What strategy to find a new majority? Once again, all eyes are on the right and more particularly, on Les Républicains (LR). Last month, some LR deputies narrowly saved the government during the vote on the motion of no confidence.

Towards an alliance with Les Républicains?

40 LR deputies had not voted for censure. "It is to them that we must turn now," slips a senior minister. An alliance with the right is increasingly whispered in Macron even if, for the moment, it is a categorical no for most of the leaders of the Republicans. Some elected officials, like Aurélien Pradié, remain fiercely opposed to the policy of the head of state.

Several MPs could still cross the Rubicon. A list of fifteen names are circulating in higher places but it would still be necessary that Emmanuel Macron is ready to give them strategic positions within the government. In an attempt to reaffirm their uniqueness, Les Républicains will soon introduce an immigration bill that goes far beyond what the government is already proposing. The opportunity to test the sincerity of Emmanuel Macron on his willingness to bar to the right.