Accused by the war in Ukraine, the Head of State waited for the last moment to formalize his candidacy by a simple letter published on Friday, in the regional daily press.
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“The shape is not” olee ole “”, is suitable François Patriat, boss of Macronian senators, but the mood of the moment calls for sobriety. According to the Elysée, “the worst is coming” on the field of war in Ukraine, a country whose Russia of Vladimir Putin wants “take control”. It is therefore a simple letter of three pages published in the regional daily press that Emmanuel Macron announced, Friday, March 4, his candidacy for the presidential election. “I solicit your confidence for a new mandate as President of the Republic,” he writes in this text put online from Thursday night. No picture, no sound, no questions from journalists. Just severity words. “For the past five years, we have crossed together number of events. Terrorism, pandemic, return of violence, war in Europe: Rarely France had been confronted with such accumulation of crises, unfolded the head of state. We have faces with dignity and fraternity. “
There are still a few weeks ago, the most wishing hypotheses were circulating in the majority, where we imagined Emmanuel Macron to declare a candidate at the turn of a stroll, responding to the interpellation of a badad under the eye Complacent cameras. The President of the Republic himself thought he could lead an intense, rhythmic and optimistic campaign. None of this will take place. Like François Mitterrand and Nicolas Sarkozy before him, Emmanuel Macron classically released the pen at the time of re-election at the vote on April 10 and 24. As his predecessors, he arises by guarantor of the unity and the protection of the French.
The narrative is clear. He opposes those who have the “taste of the future” to the supporters of the “decline” and the “nostalgie”. A new variation in progressive cleavage against nationalists in place for five years. The head of state, moreover, means without appointing Eric Zemmour, who has repeatedly confessed to regret France from the thirty glorious. “The stake is to build France of our children, not re-emerge in our childhood”, Cingle Emmanuel Macron. “I am a candidate to continue preparing the future of our children and grandchildren. To allow us today as tomorrow to decide for ourselves,” he continues. The world of yesterday, as Stefan Zweig said, lived, awakened by the war. The young man who advocated the “revolution” changed too.
A feeling of already-seen
Admittedly, there are traces of the 2017 macron, reformer and liberal, when the latter warns that “we will have to work more and continue lower taxes on work and production”. An allusion to the postponement of the legal age of retirement, to which he has committed. Such a sense of already-view is manifested when it evokes between the lines a project of autonomy of schools, promising that “the priority will be given to the school and our teachers, which will be more free, more respected and better paid ” But the 2022 macron wants to “invest” – repeated term five times – more than “transform”. The popular strategy of “whatever it costs” deployed in the face of the health crisis has sprouted a few lessons. The budget orthodoxy of the beginning is no longer.
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