{"id":1897,"date":"2024-01-08T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geopolitics.fr\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2024-03-26T23:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:29:14","slug":"the-princes-whim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geopolitics.fr\/en\/2024\/01\/08\/le-caprice-du-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prince's whim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Until now, the postponement of a Council of Ministers was not due to personal convenience (travel by the Head of State, special circumstances). Clearly, the adjournment of the one on 3 January does not fall into this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cabinet reshuffle? A week after the postponement announcement, still nothing... Why all this time if not to demonstrate the extent of the personal power of the Prince, master of the clock? Unpopular with the French people, heckled within his own majority (itself not holding a majority), Emmanuel Macron wants to demonstrate, in a striking manner, that he remains the \u00abbig chief\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">One can no longer count the political figures who express a more or less open choice, such as Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, who \u00abdoes not wish to interfere\u00bb but rules out one candidacy in order to favour another. He is not the only one, far from it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This commotion has only one effect: to desacralise the presidential office a little bit more by confusing authority with caprice and by making the choice of the head of government the mere result of an internal power struggle. How, under these conditions, could the Prime Minister possibly have the least bit of authority?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The other hypothesis underlying this poor scenario would be the President's inability to make a choice of conviction associated with a clear political line. 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