Andrew Knapp
Will Emmanuel Macron govern, or merely reign? The president’s powers under the 1958 Constitution are significant but insufficient to govern as he chooses. To do that, he needs the backing of a parliamentary majority, which he may or may not win at elections in mid-June. While the victorious Macron talks a confident talk on reform, it is these further votes that could seal the fate of his reforms, and settle the sort of president he will be—a mighty majoritarian, on the one hand, or, on the other, a cohabiting lodger in power.