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POINT OF VIEW. “Macronism, an idea that is gaining ground”

“Socialist deputy, in October 2014, I submitted a report to the new Minister of the Economy, a work in which I was deeply involved. It deals with the regulated professions of law and health, with a view to feeding the bill that the minister is preparing. This report, I entitled it “For a new youth”, far from imagining whereas the minister in front of me would become, two and a half years later, on May 7, 2017, the youngest president of the Fifth Republic.

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Richard Ferrand, President of the National Assembly © Ouest-France / Vincent MOUCHEL.

From my first exchange with Emmanuel Macron, we were trying to resolve a general tension in our country. On the one hand, the bill breathed an air of freedom into economic sectors, which corporatism and rents kept out of the reach of most of our fellow citizens. On the other hand, it was necessary to renew certain protections, without which territories could find themselves in difficulty, in terms of access to services for example.

Free, protect, unite

We sketched out the principle of triple action of what would later be called macronism: liberate, protect, unite. We were looking for the best balance, specific to our French society, to combine the need to be protected and the desire to develop, regardless of where we live.

Macronism was therefore born as an overcoming of previous dogmatisms. In the same way that social democracy emerges from the sterile antagonism between employees and employers, considering that the balance of power does not exclude finding a point of agreement, macronism emerges from the observation that the emancipation of each, like our collective security, today calls for turning our backs on old reflexes.

Two historical inflections

The abandonment of postures has also allowed two historic changes since 2017. The first concerns European cooperation. What a change from the 2008 crisis! France has inspired enough confidence in its neighbors to convince them, this time, to deploy common responses on the scale of the magnitude of the consequences of the pandemic. For a year now, Europe has been able to shake off its past paralysis – without yet finding complete agility. A new internationalism is being invented while globalization is upset by the pandemic. Europe has its place there, and France will help it.

The second inflection can be summed up in a few words: “Whatever the cost. This formula, pronounced by the President of the Republic, recalled this first truth: what counts for France, it is the life of its inhabitants, and the measures which are taken to safeguard it come under national solidarity. Let us think back for a moment to the previous five-year terms and measure to what extent this evidence was in fact contrary to most dogmatisms, especially budgetary ones! The recovery plan has avoided adding the social crisis to the health crisis, and stimulates our companies to anticipate climate and geopolitical issues.

The pandemic has profoundly transformed our society. We have all been led to reassess what makes life worth living, and what true human progress is. Education, for example, in that it promotes equal access to knowledge and the development of the capacities of each student, has been confirmed as a central common good of the nation. It is well outside the box that we will find, in the years to come, a new balance between the three verbs: liberate, protect, unite. I have no doubt that we will succeed: Macronism is an idea that is gaining ground. “

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