Predictable, the result of the first round of the presidential election questions rather than reassures. At the end of a surreal campaign drowned in business and volte-face, the French remain torn. Emmanuel Macron wants to gather, but for what? Marine Le Pen plays on division, but for what purpose?
Openness on one side, withdrawal on the other, in both cases, the grand design, the one that seals a future between a people and a President, has been erased behind grandiloquent slogans.
The distribution of votes nevertheless gives some indications. The voters cast off the moorings with the traditional parties. In this sense, this call for fresh air on French political life was well anticipated by Emmanuel Macron. A desire for renewal that Jean-Luc Mélanchon also knew how to embody.
By the way, the two winners of the primaries remain at the quay. Barely introduced in France, would this device already have lead in the wing?
For the rest, the boat of the second round ventures into the mist. Only four points separate the first from the fourth candidate. The very good performance of the candidate of On the move should not hide the small gap with his challenger. Indecision prevails over conviction.
And if the French open the door of the Elysee Palace to him, Emmanuel Macron will owe it more to the Republican outburst than to popular fervor. As with yesterday’s election, for many voters, May 7 will not be about who to vote for, but rather against whom. This default choice often gives a hangover.
It is therefore a heavy responsibility that the 39-year-old suitor bears. The man is clever. In one year, he was able to thwart all predictions and send back to the ropes all those who saw in him a media bubble. When he appears for the first time before the French, it is to reach the highest step of power. An unprecedented performance.
But to achieve this, he must, too, cut the moorings with this “at the same time” which sealed the five-year term of François Hollande and which makes us sail on sight. This obstacle crossed, Emmanuel Macron will be able to specify with which parliamentary crew he intends to govern.
