In its editorials, the French press today analyzes the difficulties of the second term of President Emmanuel Macron, who was re-elected with 41.4% of the votes for Marine Le Pen from the far-right.
The newspaper La Croix summarizes the analysis shared by almost all newspapers in the country with the headline “One victory and a thousand challenges”.
“It’s a tremendous relief,” says economic daily Les Echos. “Once again, the French people have shown the wisdom to banish extremism, but Macron faces enormous challenges in a country full of doubts.”
Macron scored an undefeated victory over the meaningful vote of the far right in Le Monde’s assessment. “He will lead a divided country and although he said in his speech that he understood the message of dissatisfaction sent by the French, he expects difficult years,” the newspaper said. Le Monde states that although Marine Le Pen declared victory and improved his result by 7 points compared to the 2017 election, he “failed for the third time in his strategy to reach the Élysée Palace”.
Macron has made preserving the purchasing power of the French, the theme of Le Pen’s campaign, a priority in his new term, to show that his future government will heed the demands of the frustrated voters with this vote. Le Monde emphasizes that the first measures planned in this context are the indexation of pensions to inflation, the reduction of taxes on the self-employed and the adoption of a law that will oblige profit-making companies to pay “dividends to their employees”. .
Macron’s vote for Le Parisien should not be underestimated. Since the 1960s, only three presidents have managed to be re-elected and are now part of this elite club of winners, including General Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac. At 44, Macron remains the youngest president in French history. In his editorial, Le Parisien insists that two-thirds of voters in the first round voted for the anti-system candidates, with Macron winning 17 points ahead of Marine Le Pen.
French democratic mobilization
Liberation newspaper, “Thanks to whom?” With the headline, he says that Macron owes his victory to the democratic mobilization of the French. The main point was to defeat Marine Le Pen’s far-right, but the country split the polls in two. and weakened. underlines Liberation. The editor critically says that Macron “did not address the roots of the unrest” that had been evident in French society for several years. In Liberation’s assessment, Macron should choose more democratic governance, with a social and ecological focus.
Conservative daily Le Figaro says Macron’s legitimacy cannot be questioned despite the high rate of abstentions (28%) and the vote to stop the far-right. In 2017, Macron had a quarter of the electorate; today there is a third, which is an undeniable progress. Alexis Brézet, editor-in-chief of Le Figaro, lists a list of actions expected in this second term, including sanitation of public accounts, continuity in the State’s modernization reforms, courage to rebuild the public school and reinvent the hospital system. .
source: Noticias
