Corriere della Sera describes how the French have grown to dislike their president:
“’I don’t understand him anymore’, said [former Prime Minister] Gabriel Attal. … Like Attal, many who believed in Macron no longer understand him: they don’t understand why he suddenly dissolved the National Assembly [in June 2024], why he appointed an elderly gentleman like Barnier as prime minister, then another elderly gentleman like Bayrou, and finally the young Lecornu, who, however, had the insurmountable flaw of being the last of Macron’s loyalists at a time when everything associated with Macron is unpopular with the public and almost the entire political class.”