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Does confusion reign in macronia?

While Emmanuel Macron receives the leaders of the parties represented in the Assembly this Thursday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the president's latest statements are sowing trouble within his own house.

As for the executives of the macronie, it becomes difficult to understand the head of state.

After successively receiving François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron brought together the party leaders represented in the Assembly this morning on the same subject.

There will certainly be discussion of the president's comments not excluding the sending of ground troops to Ukraine.

A position which sows confusion, including in the camp of the head of state.

It must be said that the strategic ambiguity claimed by Emmanuel Macron on the international scene can annoy his camp.

But it is above all the presidential vagueness in domestic politics that makes people cringe.

And there is no shortage of recent grievances, ranging from the chaotic sequence of the agricultural show to the errors linked to the late nomination of the head of the list for the Europeans.

“The head of state is unpredictable, and multiplies the outbursts decided on his own at the last moment,” analyzes an early walker.

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Accumulated frustrations

Parliamentarians often feel discredited and taken by surprise.

“The outlines must be revealed next week, but we know almost nothing about the text on the end of life,” says one MP, for example.

Some ministers admit that Emmanuel Macron may be difficult to understand and that they themselves do not have a very clear vision of the agenda.

In macronia, the exercise of power is also accompanied by frustrations accumulated by executives disappointed at not having won a place in government.

“There are more and more of them because many have gone from the status of amateurs to that of political professionals,” underlines an advisor to the executive.