Worldview: This disastrous election is France’s Brexit moment - every bit as mistimed and every bit as consequential for his country
as Cameron’s referendum was for BritainConsummate gambler, Macron is a man supremely confident of his own political judgment, but completely lacking in self-awareness – 'he has no clue that people loathe him,' one voter told Liberation. Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Imageshad chosen this moment of political weakness to call an unnecessary parliamentary election, Le Monde described a bizarre conversation he had with an adviser who asked if he was depressed.
Macron, the product of France’s elite Ecole Nationale d’Administration, shares much of Cameron’s aloofness, self-confidence and sense of invulnerability and has launched a process also likely to produce the opposite of the desired effect, the real possibility of a first far-right government since the days of Vichy.
A delusional Macron told Le Figaro he did not think the far right could repeat its European success in a domestic election. They were using the election to let off steam, he argued, and he spoke of listening to the “silent majority”. He would call voters’s bluff. But he is not a listener, not least to any silent majority, but far more inclined to lecture them.
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