Comment un dirigeant politique peut-il imposer des demandes inhabituelles dans une démocratie face à la Covid-19, alors qu’il suscitait déjà une grande méfiance bien avant cette crise en raison d’une image écornée mettant à mal sa légitimité et son autorité dans la sphère publique ? Cet article repère les démarches discursives du Président français pour réparer son image dans ses deux premiers discours sur le Coronavirus. La réparation d’image se fait ici indirectement par une voie différente de celles que répertorie la littérature savante sur le sujet. Il s’agit, pour Emmanuel Macron, de renforcer sa légitimité affaiblie ainsi que de construire des postures d’autorité. Ces deux concepts sont clairement distingués dans notre analyse et constituent des axes importants du retravail de l’ethos, dont l’objectif est d’accroitre la confiance des Français dans le Président et les mesures annoncées pour enrayer la pandémie.
How can a political leader impose unusual demands in a democracy in the face of Covid-19 when he was already arousing a great deal of mistrust, long before this crisis, because of a distorted image that undermines his legitimacy and authority in the public sphere? This article identifies the discursive steps taken by the French President to repair his image in his first two addresses on the Coronavirus. It shows that his strategies of image repair are indirect and differ from those listed on the subject in scholarly literature. Emmanuel Macron’s objective is to strengthen his weakened legitimacy and build his position of authority. These two concepts are clearly distinguished in the analysis proposed here and are important axes for the re-elaboration of the President’s ethos, whose objective is to increase the confidence of the French in his leadership and in the measures announced to stem the pandemic.
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