Shortage of fuel, social fracture ... These France who no longer speak to each other

We already knew that the double electoral sequence of the spring had produced an unprecedented result: not only did the executive draw no momentum, even no breath, but everyone came out of it convinced of having won. What use are elections in this case, if they do not designate a winner recognized and accepted by all?

Autumn is aptly named, which already seems to be that of this wobbly five-year term. Emmanuel Macron's primary ambition, we still remember, was to reconcile the country. He attempted the famous overrun, now reduced to the addition of residual government forces. Now, faced with the gasoline crisis, the government is adopting the worst attitude: "We don't say what people are going through," summarizes a minister. Politics, that dead language.

In the Assembly, the examination of the budget against a background of 49.3 shows that the sum of opposites is now the majority, without obviously constituting an alternative. Although he admits that the question of "national unity" is posed, Jean-Luc Mélenchon assumes a strategy of conflict. However, he in turn finds himself swept away by a societal fracture - around family violence -, so he wants to be a herald of the social fracture, convinced, as he says in private, that "the destabilization of power is an acquired fact". Parallel Frances are thus set in motion, which do not speak to each other, no longer live the same history and never come together. Soon it will be winter.