The French President Emmanuel Macron has with his movement, “En marche!” a good chance to become the strongest force in the parliamentary elections in June. He owes his fresh look at the policy.
At the beginning of this Phrase. In the election campaign used the candidate you so often, that many journalists were just for a Sprachtick. The candidate explained the facts of the case, he said: “… et en même temps” – “… and at the same time”, and then he explained the topic from a different perspective, often from the exact opposite.
In the meantime, the candidate Emmanuel Macron has been elected as the French President and we now know that his preference for this formula comes from an intellectual preference, namely for complex Thinking, wrote recently in the daily newspaper “Le Monde”. In other words: Macron is Convinced that the seemingly contradictory positions can be reconciled.
“At the same time” – more than just a Tick
Le Monde quotes from a speech Macrons, in which he explained why he “slips et en même temps” in his argument. The term “simply means that it picks up things that seem to be opposites, to reconcile the but for a society is indispensable”.
The Confidence, that apparent opposites can agree, has taken on Macron of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur, whose student he once was. In order for a concept from the Olympus of the French thinking is increased in the everyday political Arena.
Macrons intellectual inspirer: the philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)
The effect is shown in Macrons of the Cabinet. His Ministers come and Ministers from both the Left and the Right – and, above all, to the same Parts. “Macron is trying,” says the social scientist Eileen Keller from the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg, “to overcome this Right-to-left scheme, and a government of the centre to set up a government, both politicians from the right as the left-hand bearing members, and in a very balanced relationship.”
Beyond the camp thinking
To understood the key, the “Le Monde” in its analysis of the macro’s thought, delivers, belongs to another: “Revolution”. “Revolution” called the young President will also be in the November book, in which he explains his political ideas. Already on the first page, he speaks of the “democratic Revolution”.
This includes Macron breaks with the French Tradition of camp thinking. His predecessor in the office – whether it’s François Mitterrand or Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy or François Hollande – were not strong representatives of either the bourgeois or socialist Milieus and their respective networks and cable. Without a political career in France is hardly possible. Almost all of these politicians to the social and academic Elite of the country came, many had to go through the cadre École nationale d’administration (ENA). However, this has changed under the Macron is not: He himself and many of his Ministers are ENA graduates.
Mixed: Macrons Cabinet
The conventional political order corresponded to the choice behavior of the French, writes Thierry Pech, Director of the think tank Terra Nova, in his book “insoumis Sion” (“disobedience”). “The elections have solidified this camp of thinking with their own strategies and programmes. This gave the French democracy, a two-part character, the little room for dissidence and minority movements.”
With Macron is now movement in the old order, says Eileen Keller. “The President has divided the old warehouse logic. As a result, he is characterized as a kind of political entrepreneur who wants to move something.”
More and more French will take him, this Departure apparently. 11. June choose a new Parliament. This is also representative of Macrons stand still a young movement, “En marche!”. In surveys, you have good chances to be given. You could expect up to 330 out of the total of 535 seats, says the newspaper “Les Echos”, the latest opinion polls.
National Self-Confidence
This – preliminary – success explains Macron with another favorite term: “roman national”. By that he means the Belief that the French, Despite all prophecies of doom, is quite able to turn their future after decades of crisis for the Better. Macron quotes like the heroes of French history, and calls on the French to raise in your mind something New – together.
In Parts of the skeptical, the French civil society. Strike against labour market reforms, March 2016
This spirit, says Eileen Keller from the German-French Institute, reflect issues specifically in Macrons, the most urgent social and political Problem in the country is the high unemployment. “The want to do Macron, in close consultation with the social partners. He wants a more flexible labour market and to extend this purpose, the powers of the social partners.” The reaction according to Keller, were positive. “They have signaled a willingness to reform.”
Macron wants to change a lot: The pension insurance with a good two dozen different funds and significant contribution of and differences in performance, he wants to unify. The unemployment insurance Fund is to administer the state, instead of, as previously, employers and trade unions. In schools of so-called social focal points he wants to limit the Class size to twelve students. And for school leavers from these, often by many migrants inhabited quarters to an employer for three years, no social charges to pay. To facilitate the Integration of these young people into the labour market. Whether that’s enough for a real “democratic Revolution” à la Macron, remains to be seen.
He will say often: “… et en même temps” – “… and at the same time”. It seems as Macron have made the French at least want to think more complex and differentiated. Maybe he is able to not only ideologically, but also socially deeply divided country.