Sovereign but also partisan, Emmanuel Macron has an obsession: to leave a trace in history. It has De Gaulle as a model – a political personality hardened by the world war – and also as its only precedent: in 1962, defeated by Parliament, the government of Georges Pompidou fell, who was also responsible for the Center Beaubourg, today known as the Center Pompidou. Charles De Gaulle, then president, reacted to the crisis with the semi-presidential reform, opening that long page that the current tenant of the Elysée seems destined to close. De Gaulle proceeded with a referendum, because he had the consensus that Macron does not have.
Le Président, from the beginning of the second mandate in 2022, he tried in every way: he immediately created the National Council of the Refoundation, with clear reference to that of the Resistance wanted by Moulin and De Gaulle in ’43. It was never talked about again. Then the party, Renaissance, destined to carry forward Macronism after him. “Soon you will have no reason to vote for extreme movements,” he said in 2017: seven years later he finds himself without a majority and with the RN as the leading party in the country and the left in coalition as the leading parliamentary force.
On several occasions he then invited international leaders to Paris, like last December 7, when the reopening of Notre-Dame took place. Or the Olympics. The two large construction sites for which he claims credit. But in broad daylight he remains a plastic grandeur, according to the majority of French people: popularity rate just above 20 percent, and 54 percent would like his resignation. Ungrateful, according to Macron.
He still has two years left to avoid the end of Barack Obama: the «Commander in chief» with the reputation of a reformer who serves two terms only to be replaced by a populist. But two years is not enough. For this reason it is said that he is aiming for 2032, as he cannot run again in 2027. He would cover the five years of absence with a loyalist. If this were the case, Macron would still have a precedent: Putin.
