In particular, based on an association of newly created local elected officials, the head of state wants to counteract the narrative woven by its opponents of a disconnected president of the reality of the country.
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Jazz music and tricky glasses. The atmosphere is user-friendly, on Tuesday, November 16, Square Montparnasse, a room in the basement located close to the station of the same name, in Paris. A few hundred guests are gathered under the banner of the Republic together (LRE), association of local macronistic elected representatives launched by former Minister Stéphane Travert. “Elected from the territories”, proclaims his slogan. And visibly happy to be in the capital, on the sidelines of the Congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF).
“Chuuut!”, move some guests while Gabriel Attal seizes the microphone. The government spokesperson wants to pass a message: despite the majority over the municipal, departmental and regional elections, in 2020 and 2021, the Republic in March (LRM) would be “implanted” as close to the life of the French. “There is this kind of political, media construction, who would like to make the presidential majority an uprooting political movement, absent from the territories. You are all and all the proof that it is wrong,” he says. A Pro Domo advocacy intended to counteract the story of an Emmanuel Macron portrayed by his opponents as disconnected from the reality of the country.
“President of the cities”, “president of the rich” … At the approach of the presidential election of 2022, the head of state and his supports strive to hunt these anathemas, successfully installed by the right (for the first) and the left (for the second) at the beginning of the five-year. Two trailed balls for four and a half years, which fuel the arrogance image of the former Minister of the Economy. A tenacious impression in the opinion: according to an IFOP survey published in October, only 26% of French people judge Emmanuel Macron close to their concerns.
“misunderstanding” and “prejudice”
To go up the slope, the President of the Republic has been looking for long months to rely on the most popular elected category of Hexagon: mayors. The same with which he had sent himself during the great national debate in the aftermath of the crisis of “yellow vests”, early 2019. “Since we are together in our responsibilities, we have experienced seizures. I have it Always saw the mayors at the heart, at the front of the Republic, “said Macron, Thursday, at the closing of the AMF Congress, in order to better place themselves.
Remote? “Misunderstandings” and “prejudices,” he argued. “I am not the only president of the Republic not to have been mayor. I understood that general de Gaulle has been honored lately, it may have had the same fault,” said The head of state, giving rise to having spent more time than his predecessors to debate with local elected officials. The day before, in front of a thousand ediles received at the Elysee, Mr. Macron also believed that the “Prefect-Mayor couple demonstrated all its effectiveness” during the CVIV-19 crisis. It falls well: the initiative is of its fact.
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