You might have heard that Emmanuel Macron is having a tough time lately. First he was criticised for not handling very well (read: not well at all) a crisis surrounding his bodyguard, who posed as a policeman and attacked protestors at a march. This pushed Macron’s declining ratings into free fall. Then his environment minister resigned. Then his sports minister resigned. Then one of his MPs resigned and compared the party to the Titanic. Then his home secretary resigned, and it took two weeks to replace him. Then his best European ally, Angela Merkel, decided it was time for her to call it quits, too. Come thinking of it, he’s had a tough time for a good six months now.
Manu is weakened in the polls, he is increasingly alone, and is said to be exhausted. Last week, he took four days off in Normandy, fuelling rumours of burn out. Outwardly, the “boss”, as he is called in his inner circle, shows signs of fatigue. For someone known to sleep only four hours a night who was elected for his youth and enthusiasm (and whose labour minister has declared that a burnout “isn’t a work-related illness”), exhaustion is far from ideal.
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