We remember the skirmish between François Mitterrand and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing during the televised debate between the two rounds of the 1981 presidential election. you have become the passive man”, had dropped the first to the second.
40 years later, things are simpler for rebellious France as they put Emmanuel Macron on trial. For the formation of the left, the President of the Republic would be at the same time a leader from another era weighed down by his trajectory.
In recent days, rebel executives have thus painted the portrait of an outdated head of state, with outdated solutions. An attempt at ringardization that seeks to deprive Emmanuel Macron and his camp of the modernity they demand.
The “young Giscardians” and the “old”
Clémentine Autain, elected deputy in Seine-Saint-Denis, drew this Monday in front of our journalist Apolline de Malherbe:
“Macronie, we have the impression that it is the young Giscardians who have come out of formalin.”
Echoing the words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon during the “Amfis”, these summer universities organized by rebel France in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère this weekend. This Sunday, it was Jean-Luc Mélenchon who thus attacked Emmanuel Macron “ghost of the 19th or 20th century” from the podium. Already on Friday he accused him of being from “another time”, which however he dated from the “20th century”, before concluding:
“He is a very old man, Mr Macron.”
Oxymoron
Regardless of the chronology, the idea that is defended is that of a head of state stuck in old things without a foothold in today’s society and the issues that affect it.
“Macronism is an oxymoron. Never has a president been physically so young and politically so old”, condemns Alexis Corbière to BFMTV.com.
A history buff, the deputy elected in Seine-Saint-Denis lends himself to the game of comparisons between Emmanuel Macron and some figures from the past: “There is Bonapartism in him. His prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, is a rather minor character, while turning in around And then there is the Guizot side because he is the man of income, money and inheritance that he passes on”.
No control over crises
Beyond the anathema, the parliamentarian explains how the prescriptions proposed by the forty of the Elysee would have passed their expiration date.
“You have a program that is very focused on the past and not on solutions to our problems,” he said.
“There is an unprecedented ecological crisis that will lead to new disorders and implies that we break with this system of depredation of the planet that is capitalism. On the social crisis, he maintains an old derogatory and conservative discourse about the unemployed who would be responsible for their situation, we have heard it a thousand times! And as for the democratic crisis, he has no idea of institutional change.”
“He is the president of the old solutions that fail”, summarizes Alexis Corbière.
A “culture battle”
However, since the publication of his essay Revolution In 2016, in the renewal of political personnel mentioned by La République en Marche, Emmanuel Macron built his political narrative on the theme of modernity.
“He is a two-faced Janus. In the photos we see him smiling, biscotos in the air on a jet ski. It is a communication that pretends to make it look young when in fact it is dusty, ”she continues cutting. Alexis Corbiere.
By insisting on the alleged obsolescence of presidential software, it is up to rogue France to fight Emmanuel Macron on his own media turf. “Politics is always a cultural struggle,” recalls the rebel parliamentarian.
Source: BFM TV
