May's resignation threatens to radicalize the Brexit process

PARIS.- With the eyes flooded with tears and the voice strangled by the emotion,

Theresa May

resigned yesterday as British Prime Minister after acknowledging that he was unable to fulfill the only mission with which he came to power three years ago: conclude the divorce with the European Union (EU) . His resignation threatens to radicalize the process of

Brexit

between London and Brussels.

"I'm really sorry I could not have been able
specify Brexit. I've tried it three times […] I have not been able to do it, "he said in a 67-second message read in front of the black gates with gilt material from Downing Street, the seat of government.

Dressed in a red suit, the 63-year-old head of government announced that she would formalize her resignation from the post of Conservative leader. This gesture will set in motion the complex mechanism to choose his successor, who will then be transformed into prime minister. During this process, May will continue to lead the government.

In the bitter struggle for power that began after the May announcement, former Chancellor Boris Johnson, one of the leading promoters of Brexit in the June 2016 referendum, was favored by the Former Minister of the process, Dominic Raab. considered as exponent of the new generation of conservatives.

The ambition of the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment, Michael Gove, and the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are added.

"Britain will leave the EU in October, with or without an agreement," Johnson said after confirming that he would seek out party leadership.

Many MPs or former ministers are also anxious to occupy the explosive position that Theresa May had to give up after being torpedoed by plots, intrigues, vaults, rivalries and the blows of her own fellows.

Before announcing
his resignation, according to the requirements of the protocol, May had communicated his decision to Queen Elizabeth II.

The Buckingham Palace probably intervened in the definition of the calendar because the Prime Minister was to represent the sovereign during the official visit of Donald Trump and participate in the commemoration of the landing in Normandy, scheduled for June 6. His sorrow allowed yesterday to guess the ordeal that lived this tall woman of 1.72 m, elegant but without grace and fanatic of shoes
animal printduring the 35 months he is in power.

May was appointed by the
Tory Temporarily replace Prime Minister David Cameron to fulfill two specific missions: repair the deep divisions created by the result of the June 26 referendum, which sanctioned the British exit of the EU (Brexit). But in addition, this woman who in the campaign was fervently pronounced by the continuity of the relationship between Britain and the EU, should negotiate the terms of this divorce with the Brussels authorities.

Traumatic succession

May's succession will be as traumatic as her rise to power. His virtual surrender results from the greater division suffered by the
Tory since the end of the second world war. For the first time in decades, several MPs left the Conservative party and many ministers resigned from cabinet because of a disagreement – explicit and public – with the prime minister.

Her own deputies refused three times the votes she needed to implement the Brexit agreement that she had negotiated and signed with the EU, obliging her to introduce amendments in the text and to make humiliating pilgrimages to Brussels to obtain changes that she knew. They would not change the situation.

The result of these tragic circumstances, which have sometimes acquired the characteristics of comedy, is that it must postpone to October 31 the date of Brexit, originally scheduled for March 29. This postponement even forced Britain to take an unusual turn this week: hold an election to appoint 73 MEPs to sit for a few weeks … or never.

But the most troubling aspect is that as the crisis gets worse, the government loses control of the situation and the country starts operating with autopilot. Another dramatic aspect of this situation is that the power intrigues have exerted a public opinion more and more distant from its political clbad considered sectarian, irresponsible and incompetent.

The best example of this phenomenon is the inexperienced arrogance with which Cameron managed the referendum on Brexit, which became a time bomb: in just over three years, the only European country that seemed vaccinated against the extreme right The doors of all the populist demons, plunged into deep chaos, mortgaged their economy and threatened their future for the next 50 years.

The best proof of this change is that the transition opened by Theresa May's resignation coincides with the resurgent resurrection of the Brexit party.

In just over three months, this new eurosceptic, xenophobic and racist group founded by Nigel Farage – another Brexit promoter in 2016 alongside Boris Johnson – could have won the European Parliament elections in Great Britain.

The results will not be known until Sunday, but all indications are that the Brexit Party has held the first position – in front of the Conservatives and Labor – and has become Britain's first political force.

The Farage ghost will radicalize the May succession and the departure of the EU, the new leader having little leeway to try to convene a new referendum or renegotiate the exit agreement with Brussels.

In the current context, a
not agree This is the most credible prospect. More than an issue without agreement – dry, brutal and traumatic – a
not agree in these circumstances, it looks more like a leap into emptiness.