Macron, young with old – Liberation

The free electron government is organized. One year before the presidential election, the economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, launched Wednesday in Amiens (north) his own political movement, “Walking In!”, Positioning “not right, not left” . at 38 years old, the protégé of François Hollande, unelected media darling and particularly popular right and center, shifts into high gear. In 2017 optical and, until proven otherwise, to contribute to the re-election of the current head of state. singular figure in a world of political professionals, lawyer of transpartisan overtaking on a social-liberal line, Macron has something in it to Francois Hollande, but also of Alain Juppé, Manuel Valls and François Bayrou. A melting pot that some socialists like little like the Minister vallsiste Pascale Boistard that the announcement of the launch of Power Up!, Sent on Twitter the link of the song Goldman I walk only … “the Macron problem is that it no longer passes the door, ridicules another elected PS. The all-Paris came to tell him that he was the future Kennedy. He eventually believe it … “” I want to do more for my country, “ affirmed the minister last month.

The legacy of Holland

Between the head of State and Emmanuel Macron, there is almost a filiation. Something of a community of thought or project. At first, François Hollande has also refused to follow the logic of socialist chapels, preferring to work for the emergence of a social democratic party more in line with market requirements through Transcourants: undo ” straitjacket “of the labor code was then already in its program … Europe was his great affair, his own, that of his best friend, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, that of their mentor at the time … It was Jacques Delors in 1983 before becoming the first secretary of the PS. Between the Netherlands and Macron transcourant the transpartisan, the line is continuous. Responding to the British Prime Minister who mocked the misadventures of the Union, yet the deputy secretary general of the Elysee was willing to “die for the euro” … Holland sulking all less pleasure he does not doubt the loyalty of the young inspector of Finance submitted to it Attali 2008 a night before making his senior adviser at the Elysee. “Macron is a nice guy, that gay is not bad spirit or a disturbing ambition” had he told Challenges. [Photomontage from T. Camus. AP and s. From SAKUTIN. Reuters]

The line Juppe

Since the victory of Hollande, the mayor Bordeaux has been one of the first on the right to defend the idea of ​​a “Government of reasonable people,” clearly distinct from “those who did not understand the world “ to extremes. “It will perhaps consider one day to cut both ends of the omelet,” he confided early 2015. In the spirit of Juppe, Macron is obviously one of those ” reasonable “that does not stop at the reforms for the competitiveness of businesses or reducing the state’s lifestyle. Moreover, both refrain from systematically put forward the identity issue facing the communal danger. Juppe and Macron share the defense of a “happy identity”, in the words of the first. [Photomontage from T. Camus. AP and R.Duvignau.Reuters]

In response to the remarks made by the Minister of Economy in Davos on the rigidities of the labor code, the favorite of the primary right and prevailed center of his birthright in terms of reforming audacity: “for months and months that in all my speeches, I say that the 35 hours are a ball and must be repealed . [...] I am the original and [Macro] is a copy. “ Macron Prime Minister Juppe? Why not, in substance meets the Raffarin juppéiste: “There is no incompatibility between the sensitivities, the two temperaments, the two cultures,” on Thursday said the former prime minister. Macron against Juppe? With just 14%, according to a recent survey, the youngest would not make the weight and was eliminated in the first round of presidential elections, ahead even Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The competition Valls

For a long time, the difference between Manuel Valls and Emmanuel Macron seemed to come down to a matter of style, as the two men were fitting on topics economic. Named to Matignon, Valls saw in Macron a useful ally for advancing reforms stinging left, starting with the overhaul of the labor code. 35 hours, or the Staff Regulations, Macron was beyond his expectations, proving that the violation does not frightened. But between the two men, the commonalities end there. Several times over the last six months, the intransigent republicanism Valls and Macron compassionate liberalism are collided head. For if the Prime Minister is in the fracturing even be anxiety, the Minister of Economy, who has never rubbed by universal suffrage arises more in man overshoot. [Photomontage of after T. Camus. AP and Laurent Troude]

So little that the initiative to launch a Macron transpartisan movement displeased Valls: “There are still differences,” pitched the Prime Minister on the sidelines of a trip with Francois Hollande in Metz. “Nothing would be worse than the confusion” between left and right, “a beautiful cleavage” . A skirmish preceded by many others.

Macron who, shortly after the November attacks, had estimated that France, for its failure to provide a place to everyone, had “some responsibility” in the jihadist phenomenon Valls had curtly replied that “no excuses should not be sought.” And try to understand, it was already apologizing. Even divergence on the revocation of citizenship, about which the Minister of Economy finally confess “a philosophical discomfort” . Macron is hardly more easily accommodates shortcuts which use Valls to impose its vision of secularism. While Prime Minister proposes to “combat Salafism as it flourished in our neighborhoods and has become an important part of the youth,” Macron prefers to defend the integration of youth suburbs by work and activity. This is also the meaning of the event he had organized at Bercy mid-March to allow a thousand young people from job search to meet the diversity of large recruiting firms. The clip of a very young movement Running! reports that “Happy diversity” that it calls for.

The position of Bayrou

Invent a new political movement that would exceed the left-right divide, declared obsolete. The idea is not really new. This is the refrain of François Bayrou, the centrist indéboulonnable icon that central dream. One of his former fellow travelers, the former mayor of Amiens UDF Gilles de Robien, not sulking his pleasure. “Ravi” that his city was the theater, the show reminded him Macron “Giscard’s approach” the one who claimed to assemble two in three French. “I am a leftist government and I totally assume the values ​​that I believe in and what characterizes me. But I want to work with people who feel right now, too, “, launched Macron Wednesday, saying that being a presidential candidate ” not [his] priority today ‘ hui “. Unlike Bayrou. [Photomontage from T. Camus. AP and V. Nguyen. Riva Press]

Another difference is the one that launched the Modem on the credo “neither right nor left” was already an established figure and elected while Macron has something her entrepreneurial civil society. In the primary RS, this niche of the iconoclastic ProBusiness who wants to end the party is clearly occupied by NKM. Of course strongly supports the initiative of Macron, the Polytechnique was packed: “I was working on a prototype, it’s as if there added a second reactor.”

Nathalie Raulin Alain Auffray Jonathan Bouchet-Petersen