Presidential Election 2022: For candidates, inevitable support for “Made in France”

Seven candidates announced come campaign at the annual exhibition dedicated to the promotion of French products, organized until Sunday in Paris.

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An event inaugurated by two ministers and visited by seven presidential candidates: the political attractiveness of the MIF Expo gives to this show of “Made in France”, organized in Paris from 11 to 14 November, an air Farmhouse of agriculture. For a campaign team, the two themes have the common advantage of attracting any opposition – difficult not to post support for the peasant world or the development of companies in the national territory – while providing an opportunity to present clevant proposals in the presence of its competitors.

Friday, November 12, Jean-Luc Mélenchon must come to defend his program of “ecological and solidarity protectionism”, a few hours before the expected arrival of Marine Le Pen, regular visitor of the show since the creation of the event in 2012 . Former Minister Arnaud Montebourg, a great defender of a “Made in France XXL”, will even hold a space dedicated to the honey production company he created. A conference entitled “The relocation, between the promises and the reality” had to gather several contenders to the Elysee, Friday afternoon, without Yannick Jadot – the ecologist candidate is expected Saturday – neither Eric Zemmour, still in preamp but who has Announced his coming for the closing day, Sunday.

Consensus on the need for relocation

Thursday, it is the ministers delegates Agnès Pannier-Runacher, in charge of the industry, and Alain Griset, in charge of small and medium-sized enterprises, who inaugurated the show before wandering among the 800 stands of producers and French manufacturers gathered Porte de Versailles. The opportunity to highlight the concept of strategic autonomy, defended by the executive in France and in the European Union (EU), particularly with regard to the field of health, crudely highlighted by the health crisis . “Manufactured in France, it is sovereignty, independence, that is, the ability to relocate know-how or production shares on the French soil without being in a target that would be to close the France from the rest of the world “, had summary Emmanuel Macron, early July, inaugurating an exhibition of French products organized to the Elysee.

All supporters of relocated industries, candidates for the presidential election oppose the level of openness to adopt against products and capital from abroad. On the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defends, for example, the establishment of more demanding environmental and social standards on the arrival of new activities in France. “It is not a question of ruining the companies that would like to settle in the territory”, holds immediately to emphasize Clemence Waste, the coordinator of the program the future of France unsuitable. “However, in the long run, it is impossible to continue to circumvent the antipollution standards. In the medium term, we talk about the lives of people: correct wages and dignity in the work”, pleads M me Waste before sure that “France will continue to be an attractive country once one will be in the controllers and we will fix these conditions”.

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