A year after dissolution, anarchy in macronie – liberation

To get himself betrayed François HollandeEmmanuel Macron is not fooled by displayed loyalty. He calls this little theater « The life of beasts « . At the dawn of his second mandate, the head of state brings together the macronist bestiary for a dinner in the Elysée gardens in the summer of 2022. Around the table, each would be a good chief of pack in 2027: Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the president of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, the ministers Gérald Darmanin, Bruno Le Maire, From the group to the Assembly, Aurore Bergé. Macron knows and tackles this inevitable « time of ambitions ”. He asks them to remain united while waiting: « When the time comes, I will commit to it ”he promises.

Did he imagine that the war of succession would take less than three years to start? To inherit what, by the way? Of a « Macronism «  including government spokesperson, Sophie Primas, provides « The end in the coming months« , arousing cries of gold and silent agreements? Have we ever been known What macronism was the name ? Of a clan, a faculty to overcome the cleavages, from a faith in supply policy and European construction, of a Quickly forgotten promise to renew the practices ? Officially, Macron found « rider » The release of Primas. Magnanimous, he accepted the apologies of the spokesperson, praying to her to « Pay attention to the balances of this majority ” : « The country needs stability. «  In reality, the president’s reaction was flowered. «  »Difficult to publish « admits a witness. We will not bury him like that.

The Republicans have a good game of proclaiming the planned obsolescence of macronism and the return of the right-left divide. Pure and hard macronists do another calculation. The PS, with its congress passed under radars, and the LR, despite a Bruno Retailleau seen as a speculative bubble, climb to the second round of the presidential election? Unlikely. Macronism is therefore well alive! «  »I want as proof that the PS and LR have not really rebuilt since the arrival of the president and after the dissolution, Makes the co -founder of En Marche, Philippe Grangeon. It would be wrong to think that, because Emmanuel Macron will not be a candidate in 2027, the offer he embodied is not durable. ”

If the traditional parties do not find their seat, the President of the Republic will at least leave this imprint. «  »In history books, we will remember macronism as the overcoming of cleavages. In the middle of the Fifth Republic, a stranger arrived and broke the system in a year and a half because he understood the aspirations of people ”famous Ambroise Méjean, president of young people with Macron. A central block preventing the emergence of a moderate alternative: isn’t that a dream scenario for the extreme right? The deputy (Renaissance) Roland Lescure believes the opposite: « Faced with the extreme right wave which is taking away the whole world, it is almost existential, for me, to keep this capacity for overtaking. »

The secretary general of Renaissance, Gabriel Attal, also claims this positioning « central ». «  »We will not ask if our solutions appeal to the right, the left or to the political commissioners of the single thought »he proclaimed, April 6 during a meeting in Saint-Denis. Even Edouard Philippe aims to rat « The social-democratic left to the conservative right ».

Beyond the slogans, it is on the right that the contenders are eyeing. When he presented, on May 26, the measures « regaliennes «  of the party, of which his idea of ​​prohibiting the wearing of the veil to young girls under the age of 15, Attal has soaped up to his camp, the weak left wing and the centrists of the modem. His supporters have a good game to recover the process « Disruptive » theorized by the candidate of En Marche in 2017 and to describe a strategy of « Put the sliders on the right and left side » very strongly « . Already initiated when Emmanuel Macron had all his influence, the drift of the party continues. In the 2024 legislative elections, its re -elected deputies were in the right -wing constituencies. “Historical walkers have left and confrontation with power is hard for a movement built on the citizen movementlaments a parliamentarian who participated in the beginnings of the adventure. The modem is more on the left than we in the hemicycle, even horizons will soon be. We will finish glued to LR. « 

Tirelessly, the survivors of the left center continue to plead for a rebalancing. « We must be there to recall the fundamentals of 2017. We can compose shades with all colors, not just blue », persists in believing the deputy for the Channel Stéphane Travert, who denounces The measure carried by Gabriel Attal on the wearing of the veil. But for others, Renaissance only follows a natural slope of opinion: « The country is very right and there are no voice reserves to get in the center left. » So much so that some have the hypothesis of an implosion of the party in 2027.

From the Elysée, Macron has kept an eye on the internal life of Renaissance, which he has not managed to prevent Attal to take the lead. And attended its progressive erasure. The inevitable name change this summer of young people with Macron does not shock him. The option that holds the rope, « young people on the move », is seen at the Elysée as a « Beautiful dedication ». Nothing to do with the meeting to the glory of Attal on April 6 in Saint-Denis, where his name was only sporadically quoted, his forgotten face on the posters. Party communication waited long hours before relaying The interview of the Head of State on TF1May 13. The machine is now at the service of Attal.

« This adventure started in 2017 should not revolve around the personal ambitions of a single man »protests the ex-deputy Jean-Baptiste Moreau, occupied in the drafting of a book on the survival of macronism. Who can still claim it? « As a deputy who owes everything to the president, I did not find the successor who embodies the logical rest of the adventure started in 2017 », Confers Eric Bothorel. They are alone, the growers, to defend the head of state at all costs. “The president cannot be alone in carrying out our balance sheet. Many are trying to stand out, it’s a mistake. At the end, we will all be brought back to this assessment. I assume this heritage. We built a political identity on overcoming, work, Europe. Let’s defend her! «  urges the Minister responsible for Equality between Women and Men, Aurore Bergé, who is preparing an candidacy for the Elysée.

The elected yvelines invests a loyalty niche to the head of state left free by Gérald Darmanin. The Minister of Justice has moved away from the president, not kept informed of his proposal to create a « High security prison » in Guyana. Macron died during a defense council on May 21. « Humiliating »moved Darmanin in private. With Edouard Philippe, relations are less freezing than in the past. The ex-Prime Minister did not hesitate to deplore the absence of a clear program during the presidential election of 2022 and a second five-year term without « Great project »without « Big breath ». L’« Reformer momentum » would be « Widely calmed » Since his departure from Matignon in 2020, he dared on Wednesday on France Inter. Faced with environmental declines voted in Parliament or decided by his ministers, the president himself called this week to do not « Not unraveling » The few ecological acquired from his mandate. Nor is it serene about the government’s ability to hold on, in the next budget, on supply policy at the heart of macronist doctrine.

Basically, does he care about those who will come afterwards, to put on his inheritance or squandering him? “If he was concerned, he would not have dissolved. Emmanuel is convinced that macronism is him so he does not wonder if macronism will survive him ! «  Decodes a loved one. In February, the Head of State opened the doors of the Elysée to the American chain CNN for a guided tour, presenting the works of art that sit in the mansion. To the journalist who asks him which play he would take away, if he had the choice, at the end of his five -year term, his host, detached, replied: « I will take my pen and start again. »