The political return looks tense

Vacations are going to be short. Having left for barely a week, after particularly intense months, ministers, deputies and senators are already expecting a most eventful return to school. They know the imposing pile of files waiting on their desks, in a still tense economic, ecological and social context. They will also have to move forward in a Parliament whose new groups will do their utmost to exert all their political weight.

The first step will be consultation, both formal and informal. On the public scene, the National Council for Refoundation, wanted by Emmanuel Macron and announced for the second week of September. This new tool will address the major projects to come – concerning education or health -, in a logic of dialogue, mixing union representatives, elected officials and citizens at the same time. The initiative, however, feeds strong criticism, mainly from a right that sees it as yet another…