France, Macron and the caricatured interview with the director of "Le Monde" who takes fireflies for lanterns

There is no doubt whatsoever that "Le Monde” you remain a rare flag of good journalism not only in France but in Europe. This is why the interview given today to the magazine is surprising Corriere della Sera by the Director of the French newspaper, Jerome Fenoglio, a surname which in Italy recalls inevitable cultural suggestions (Who doesn't remember "Il partigiano Johnny"?) but which today unfortunately do not find correspondence in the Director's declarations. Fenoglio considers the President's choice "irrational, surprising and narcissistic". Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the French Parliament early. But having stopped the black wave of the far right of The Pen, which Fenoglio himself acknowledges has not been normalized at all, isn't this a credit to democracy, to France and to Europe? The answer would seem obvious but Fenoglio stubbornly says no because "RN has nevertheless increased its seats in Parliament" and because Macron's choices have taken France onto "uncharted terrain". But if Fenoglio's objections to Macron's choices are essentially two, there are also two counter-objections. First: everyone can have the opinions they believe, but numbers are numbers. RN may have become the first single party in France but wasn't it aiming to gain a parliamentary majority after the first round of the elections? He instead collected 143 seats, compared to 158 in the Macronian area and 180 in the Popular Front and it is only the third national political force. Nor does he seem capable of building alliances to form a Government. After all, who doesn't remember the expressions, to say the least disconsolate, of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, after the surprise of the runoffs? Not recognizing that the far right was a resounding defeat is nothing short of caricatural. But there is the second point raised by Fenoglio which is no less questionable. The Director of Le Monde says that Macron has taken and is taking "an enormous risk for the country" because now France "is in uncharted territory". Unexplored yes, but not necessarily dangerous. The French crisis still needs to be managed and who today could say with certainty what its end point is? Is the hope expressed by President Macron to create a "solid and plural majority" for a coalition government really lunar? Or wouldn't it have been more lunar and certainly more risky for both France and Europe to do nothing to stop the far right and hand over the leadership of the country to it? When political analysis is not based on logic and numbers but on prejudices and personal antipathies it is easy to go astray and take fireflies for lanterns. This is what the Director of Le Monde did. Sin.