Olivier Biscaye's editorial after Emmanuel Macron's conference: “Good luck Gabriel Attal!”

Olivier Biscaye, editorial director of Midi Libre.

We liked the verse on civics, authority, values. After two hours of conference, we still said to ourselves that the President should have stopped in if right path. What followed was, as usual, grueling.

Emmanuel Macron made our mouths water by announcing a major meeting with the nation.

We imagined the tailor-made canvas to repair a France crossed by doubts and fractures.

We envisaged a number of exchanges to restore meaning to the spirit of citizenship and authority, to rehabilitate our pact of values ​​that is too often damaged.

The Head of State did not disappoint, his verse on good citizenship from a very young age, tinged with audacity and efficiency, had something to do with it wake up the most sleepy voters who have abandoned the conviction that the cohesion of a country was part of the answer to our many ills.

A catalog of measures of all kinds, a tornado of intentions, a whirlwind of decisions to come…

After two hours of conference, we still said that the President should have stopped there. What followed was, as usual, boring.

A catalog of measures of all kinds, a tornado of intentions, a whirlwind of decisions to come…

A menu laid out with talent but stifling after the meal to the point that we wondered in which direction Emmanuel Macron ultimately intended to guide us over the next three years.

We wish the Prime Minister good luck in making the dishes edible.