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For several weeks, Emmanuel Macron has been going through a violent political storm. Not just because of the usual controversies or criticism from the opposition, no. This time, the turmoil comes from a more unexpected place: from within his majority. And according to several people close to him, it is not simply a political crisis, but a real personal injury that the president is struggling to cope with.

A sentence that says a lot

Le Point published the testimony of a personality very close to the Élysée. Shocking sentence: “He took a stab in the gut. »
This is not a trivial formula. It sounds violent, almost intimate. And obviously, this is how many people close to the Élysée describe what Macron has felt in recent weeks.
It’s not just a political disagreement, they explain. These are figures he considered allies, people in whom he had placed his trust, who publicly criticized or left him. And it hurts. Really.

Édouard Philippe: from support to frontal criticism

At the center of this political wound is Édouard Philippe. The former Prime Minister, long the embodiment of Macronist loyalty, is now head of the Horizons party. During a media intervention on France 2, he sent a clear message: Emmanuel Macron should consider leaving before the end of his mandate in order to “get out of the crisis”.
What particularly offended the president was not so much the recommendation itself as its origin. Philippe is not unknown. For years, he has been much more than an ally: concrete support, a logistical as well as political pillar.
The tension became more acute when he explained that he was not trying to convince the president, while affirming that according to him this was the only way “to avoid long months of extermination and crisis”. A formula considered extremely clumsy, almost offensive, in the presidential entourage.

Attal, former right-hand man, who is also moving away

As if this setback was not enough, another important figure publicly questioned the strategy of the head of state: Gabriel Attal. Former Prime Minister and long presented as a loyalist, he expressed on TF1 his incomprehension regarding certain government directions, evoking “serious times” for France.
For Macron, this is not a simple difference of opinion. It is a form of double betrayal, because this criticism comes neither from an adversary nor from a classic opponent, but from a man he supported and accompanied, someone he considered close, almost like a protégé.

A shattered majority and an isolated president

What emerges from all of these episodes is a deep feeling of isolation. Macron, who has always wanted to present his majority as a united, transversal and coherent bloc, finds himself confronted with discordant voices from his own camp. It is no longer just a political disagreement, but the fact that those in whom he had placed his trust are publicly turning their backs on him.
At the Élysée, some are talking about the end of automatic solidarity, an internal disintegration that would have seemed unthinkable a short time before. For a president who has built a large part of his trajectory on cohesion and collective loyalty, this rupture goes far beyond the framework of the debate of ideas.

Political… but also human

Beyond the institutional issues, this sequence recalls a reality that is often underestimated: in politics, the human dimensions count as much as the strategies. Loyalty, trust, feeling of belonging to a group... Emmanuel Macron has put these values ​​at the heart of his exercise of power. Today, it is precisely these links that seem to be weakening.
It is therefore no longer just a political crisis, but a relational, moral, almost personal crisis, which is cracking a majority already under tension. And for a president accustomed to controlling his image and calibrating every word, this loss of internal reference points undoubtedly appears to be one of the most difficult ordeals to go through.