Emmanuel Macron, who still thought he was in the middle of crossing the desert, is now watching him like milk on the fire. A sign does not deceive: if he has not yet cut his beard, the former Prime Minister has found a smile. Manuel Valls has effectively escaped the political isolation in which he has been locked since the election of Emmanuel Macron, managing in just ten days to settle the complicated episode of his legislative election won with only 139 votes in advance. — still contested. It now occupies a special place, neglected since the presidential election.
By denouncing the link between radical Islam and La France insoumise, Manuel Valls returns to the political game to the great surprise of the executive.
Emmanuel Macron, who still thought he was in the middle of crossing the desert, is now watching him like milk on the fire. A sign does not deceive: if he has not yet cut his beard, the former Prime Minister has found a smile. Manuel Valls has effectively escaped the political isolation in which he has been locked since the election of Emmanuel Macron, managing in just ten days to settle the complicated episode of his legislative election won with only 139 votes in advance. — still contested. It now occupies a special place, neglected since the presidential election. A niche that Emmanuel Macron had left vacant and that the right, too preoccupied with the election to the presidency of the Republicans, is struggling to embody: that of the bulwark against Islamism which is taking hold in France.
It all started with yet another skirmish with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. On October 1, the deputy of La France insoumise (FI) Danièle Obono questions on the set of BFM TV the link between a RATP bus driver refusing to take the wheel following a woman and religious radicalism: “It means he has a prejudice against women. [...] What does this have to do with the question of radicalism? », she asks herself. The blood of Manuel Valls only turns, on October 3, on RTL: “I think in their speech [that of FI members], in their practices concerning radical Islam, there is complacency, there is ambiguity in any event. I think it's an Islamo-leftist discourse. »
Served by the excess of Mélenchon
The same day, the leader of La France insoumise refuses to sit next to the former Prime Minister: "I don't sit next to this Nazi", he would have launched at Valls. The tone rises, Mélenchon denies having used the word “Nazi” but adds: “From now on, the gang in Valls is fully integrated into the fachosphere and its propaganda. »
A few days pass, the pressure does not go down and Manuel Valls is appointed president of the parliamentary mission on the future of New Caledonia. “I vote against”, reacted immediately Mélenchon, according to the chained Duck. Three days later, in a pithy statement, he slams the door of the commission: “Mr. Valls is an extremely divisive character, who arouses strong rejections because of his proximity to the ethnicist theses of the far right. » Alain Bauer, the former grand master of the Grand Orient of France, who knows the two men well - he is the godfather of a child of the former Prime Minister -, trying to calm things down, deciphers the case for Current values : “Beyond the insult that soils its transmitter, it is above all the mark of the hypersensitivity of the only subject that transcends everything and that they are the only ones to apprehend: the place of the spiritual in a material space. Manuel with experience and Jean-Luc with impatience. »
“Watch the balls pass”
Basically, Manuel Valls knows it, he has just scored points. Jean-Luc Mélenchon - Emmanuel Macron is struggling to know if he will serve him or harm him - made a fool of himself. The first realized it too late: he allowed the former Prime Minister to get to the level he had always dreamed of occupying without succeeding since he left Matignon, that of a man listened to and influential. A few days after the episode, Manuel Valls – of Catalan origin – did not hesitate to express himself firmly against the independence of Catalonia.
On the side of the Élysée, believing that there were only blows to take, the relatives of Emmanuel Macron were content to “watch the balls pass”, indicates one of them. They must now deal with a former Prime Minister not about to leave a place he had so much trouble (re) conquering.
Source: © Manuel Valls, itchy hair
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David Theodorides
So much the better, I prefer Manu to Manu