A perilous comeback for Emmanuel Macron, eight months before the 2022 presidential election – teller report

Emmanuel Macron left Brégançon, the ministers made their return in the morning or in the field. And this Wednesday, August 25, after three weeks of relative rest, the whole government will meet for the Council of Ministers back to school. A return to school – the last of the five-year term – that should not be missed, eight months before the presidential election in which the Head of State should stand again.

First subject that will occupy the executive: the health crisis and the vaccination campaign. As protests against the health pass continue and the Delta variant still threatens, the government wants to show it has the situation in hand and avoid taking restrictive emergency measures, as it had to do ago. a year.

In particular because they could jeopardize the economic recovery of the country, the primary objective of the executive. Monday morning, the Minister of the Economy was on France 2 to boast of the results, welcoming growth of 15% in the first half of August, when the forecasts for 2021 were set at 6%. “The economy is doing well, we have returned to the pre-crisis level of unemployment [8%, légèrement en dessous de son niveau de fin 2019, ndlr]. Now our objective is to return to the pre-crisis level, not at the beginning of 2022 as I had indicated, but at the end of 2021 “, said Bruno Le Maire.

According to him, “This is really proof that our recovery has been effective and that all the economic decisions we took at the start of the five-year term are giving their full effect today.” While the 100 billion euro stimulus plan is being implemented, the minister is now working on a new investment plan.

Will there be any news on the reform side? Unions and employers will be received in Matignon on September 1 and 2 for “a full turn” back-to-school social topics. October 1 will see the implementation of the controversial unemployment insurance reform, and many officials hope that the head of state will not put pensions on the table, even if in his speech of July 12 Emmanuel Macron had declared that he did not “will launch[t] not this reform as long as the epidemic is not under control and the recovery is assured “.

In the coming months, Emmanuel Macron will also not be able to ignore the themes of security and immigration, pre-empted by the right, and which have earned him many criticisms after his speech on the situation in Afghanistan the week. last. Also, the Head of State will be traveling to Marseille next week, in particular to talk about the fight against drug trafficking.

Finally, while the opposition is divided and busy choosing its candidates for 2022, Emmanuel Macron will work on his presidential stature, especially internationally. This Tuesday, he is participating by videoconference in a G7 meeting on the Afghan crisis, this Thursday 26 he will be traveling to Ireland, before going to Iraq on August 28 and 29.