Macron conquered the left

It was not easy to negotiate with the British for two reasons: there was no precedent for what they were negotiating and on the other side of the negotiating table the thing was unbelievable and fake. Boris Johnsonfirst sabotaging Teresa May’s attempts at rationality and then taking the helm of a ship sailing alone. But Michel Barnier The patience, the calculation and the good stroke to push and pull a process that was created on the plane.

Has been an arbitrator at the European Union (EU) to make them happen Brexit He made this goalkeeper famous who always played on the second and third line. Even after he negotiated Britain’s complex exit from the EU, his reputation was limited to Emmanuel Macron He brought it out of the blue to put through the hard left, the extreme right and also his own.

It was the most unexpected trick. The President of France played at the frontier of French democratic rules. The French system is presidential with a strong dose of parliamentarianism, so legislative elections usually decide who will be prime minister, although the president the final decision of the post.

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In other words, the head of state is the one who chooses the head of government, but the democratic logic and tradition of the Fifth Republic makes him choose from the ranks of the party with the most votes in the parliamentary elections. well then, Macron left that traditional duty aside and, more than two months after the election in which the left coalition won, electing a man from the center-right party as prime minister which came fourth in the polls, with the approval of the far right, which was relegated to third place.

The cunning French president, at first, tried to set up a siege to electorally split the far-right National Rally (AN) led by Marine Le Pen. The electoral surprise ended with the New Popular Front, the hard-left and center-left coalition that brought together and led La Francia Insumisa, the pro-Marxist left-wing party de Jean-Luc Melenchon, the French president turned the U. and ended up looking for a candidate for prime minister who is not suspended by AN so that, with the support of the center-right Gaullist and Macron’s own liberal party, he can lead the new government.

The unexpected move even by themselves was made easier by the sensitivity of the New Popular Front because of the difficulty of its social democratic side in supporting the ideological and controversial Melenchon.

In short, without breaking any law, The French president stole the victory from the left coalitionthey forced the real right to vote for the one they chose and they took the centrist republican party out of the fourth place that defeated them, forcing the new prime minister to appear out of the his levels, as if the election was won by those who lost.

After playing on the line so far he has to help Michel Barnier to manage well in the two years he has left in the presidency. Emmanuel Macron will no longer have room for dribbles in the future and there will be no rabbits left in his hat.