Manuel Valls found the direction of travel – The Obs

On the one hand the reform movement, the future. On the other, the status quo, the status quo, the past. The air hole in the Berlin unfortunate escapade finally overcome, Manuel Valls found the direction of travel. The combination of institutions cut to help the executive and the Pavlovian reflex of opposition from right and left, quick to fall into the traps that are set for them, have given color to the tenant Matignon.

Manuel Valls visibly takes pleasure to use the tool of 49.3, eternal breath of fresh air a prime minister in trouble. This article embodies the decision making, authority, action, short, vallsisme. And the head of government should not fail to use it again as soon as he has the opportunity and possibility. Unsheathing instantly a motion of censure shaped as hollow ritual vain, the right made him a debt of gratitude. The communist deputies are responsible for beautifying the offering by combining them. Nothing like a coalition of opponents as disparate safe for you strengthen the eyes of public opinion his own convictions.

As a result, everything is back to normal and decor befitting the best the Prime Minister is planted again: on one side, change, mutation, left tomorrow so the other one yesterday, nestled in an unlikely “Block conservative”, this “left backward-looking “with which Manuel Valls proclaimed its desire to” finish “on A L’Observateur last October.

A” symbol Act “

In obtaining only 198 votes, 36 fewer than in February, at the end of the first reading of the law Macron, the failure of the censure motion strengthens a little the leader status of the majority of manual Valls. He already welcomed the broad success of the motion led by Jean-Christophe Cambadélis on behalf of the majority of the party congress at the PS and the positive reception received it two weeks ago in his speech at the rout of Poitiers. Here it is a little more reassured after the law Macron operation.

In his view, this text is indeed a “symbol of law” . Symbol of lifting blockages of the French economy boost it intends to boost employment. And symbol, above all, the identity of the left tomorrow, this “reformist left, Democratic and Republican” which he professes the introduction.

From this point of view, the gap is impressive vallsisme . Freed from the threat of Martine Aubry, sinking in his region, and that armed slingers deputies of a knife without a handle, Manuel Valls elbows, increasingly frank. Glaciation in which sink the tribes of the radical left, divided and sealed the bulky figure of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, offers him another chance. The Prime Minister knows he has not much to fear from that side.

It embodies the new identity card for the PS

The result in less four years, he managed to spend only 5% of the vote in the Socialist primary in October 2011 at Matignon in a controlling position, if not hegemonic, both within the party as socialist parliamentary groups. And he did it without changing lines or even words. Social liberalism Manuel Valls, a mixture of “reformism assumed” and “intransigent republicanism” as he said, is gradually emerging as the new PS ID. For the first time in its history, the left in power as she speaks and acts like she is talking about. “Right,” repeated his detractors who criticize betrayals and denials. In “consistency” and “responsibility”, his supporters respond by burying effects of forum-lived and double demagogic language.

Gravedigger molletisme of this cynical rhetoric that has never completely ceased to inspire socialist culture, even in the government of Lionel Jospin, Manuel Valls is accused by its critics to be the gravedigger of the tout court left. He dreams of being midwife of a new left, “modern” and “effective” . At a time when the far right is progressing dangerously, the latter adjective “effective” , is essential. Defeat the unlikely coupling Christian Jacob Andrew Chassaigne the Assembly was not more complicated.

When so many of our fellow citizens refer rulers, left and right, in their helplessness, and even doubt their usefulness, getting finally results in the fight against unemployment and inequality is a much more heavy challenge. And more urgent. Its outcome depends the fate of the mutation that Manuel Valls tries to impose on the French left.

Renaud Dely