Macron is looking increasingly desperate

President Emmanuel Macron finally broke his silence and rediscovered the magical breath of his ‘baraka’ as he took to the airwaves last night. He gave an inspiring speech offering a new political settlement to reunite the French, calling on his nation to be steadfast and confident in its greatness.

Correction: Macron did nothing of the kind. Instead, far away at the Nato summit in Washington, he sent a desperate letter to local newspapers promising that something will turn up. Eventually.

This letter to the electorate is the most tone-deaf declaration so far from a president who has led France into a political swamp. It’s the equivalent of Winston Churchill announcing in the Hastings Chronicle that Britain will fight on the beaches – with buckets and spades.

‘No one won’ the election, claimed Macron disingenuously. Although in truth the left did win, and he lost. 

The President ‘is in a denial of reality’, declared Manon Aubry, a Mélenchoniste MEP, if he imagines ‘building a solid majority’.