The French President Emmanuel Macron announced his cabinet members, half of them female.French President Macron's new centrist party stretches lead ahead of parliamentary elections next month https://t.co/HoAKZbmTga pic.twitter.com/Eu6f3f7Z5H— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 18, 2017
In theory, the selection is simply superb. Superb may not be the word for the struggling newly elect President whose campaign slogan is bring back the nation together, yet I could not have came up with other words. The very careful selection of the members of his team represent every corner of the nation's political spectrum. Right, left, center, young, old, male, female, the majority, the minority, you name it, with a very clear intention of, say, the political balancing act. Neither of the parties are monolithic.
How else could it work in such a divided nation?
The plan works, however, if and only if the theory in practice works in a way that they behave under the newly elect, rationally thinking of their very best interests. That is a hard thing in practice. Some even the moderate member of the party just can not hold off their hostilities, if not for something substantially of their real interests then just for the antipathy itself. They must think of their supporters if not their own friends and allies.
The parliamentary election is coming up very soon.