Jacques Serais // Photo credit: Victor Joly / DPPI via AFP 06:52, January 24, 2024
“The trouble always flies in squadrons.”
This sentence from Jacques Chirac, Emmanuel Macron can take it as his own.
After the immigration law, the head of state once again finds himself facing a crisis.
The farmers' protest movement is growing even though just a week ago it was seeking to launch a new beginning.
Emmanuel Macron thought that after the start of the school year last January, he could finally gain ground.
After the appointment of the new government, after the press conference organized to breathe new life into the second five-year term, the Head of State should now have his hands free to concentrate fully on the international.
But ultimately this is not the case.
Emmanuel Macron finds himself subject to his agenda.
A gap with his fellow citizens
In complete contrast to the tension gripping the country, the president will head to New Delhi, India, this Thursday, where he will attend the Indian National Day.
If he will be back in Paris this weekend, from Tuesday, he will be abroad again in Sweden for a state visit at the invitation of His Majesty the King.
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The only clarification hoped for by the presidential entourage in this confusing sequence: the decision of the Constitutional Council this Wednesday on the subject of the immigration law.
The executive is counting on the Wise Men to iron out the concessions made to the right.
But “nothing to brag about” tempers one advisor.
New statistics on immigration in France will at the same time be made public by the General Directorate of Foreigners in France.
And as since the start of the Macron era, these figures will not be good.