Guillaume Tabard: “Emmanuel Macron, legitimized resignation, trivialized dissolution”
Macron, resignation! It could be a CGT protester’s sign. Today is the call from the first of Emmanuel Macron’s prime ministers. Aspiring to office, Édouard Philippe does not use the words of a street slogan nor the clear tone of the Insoumis, who want to dismiss him. With more legal reasoning, the mayor of Le Havre calls for a “early presidential election”, scheduled in advance. But, if the words are more polite, the address is even more violent for the head of state. Because of its author and the timing.
What Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Marine Le Pen Macron’s departure is not surprising. In their calls for resignation, the president’s supporters could recognize the mark of their “extremism”. Under the ad hominem attack, they could point to a challenge to the function itself, the “keystone of institutions”, therefore proof of their supposed exit from the “republican arc”. Moreover, outside LFI and RN, the voices calling for his departure could be counted on the fingers of one hand. But Édouard Philippe, from the Council of State, trained at the school of Alain Juppé and boss of a center-right party, embodies better than anyone the “circle of reason”, sometimes ridiculed. It becomes impossible to describe as “factious” anyone who considers it necessary for Macron to leave before the end of his mandate.
THE COUNTERPOINT OF GUILLAUME TABARD