The head of state has chosen to address a “letter to the French”, which will be broadcast in the regional press.
Le Monde
The least panting suspense of the presidential campaign will be lifted tonight at 8:30 pm in a “letter to the French” disseminated in the regional press, Emmanuel Macron will announce that he will scrigate his re-election. The information, transmitted by the France-Presse agency and several media, has been confirmed in the world, Thursday, March 3rd around noon.
For any comments, Jean Castex, questioned in the stride at the” 13 hours “of TF1 , said:” I confirm, it is not a scoop, That all candidates have to have declared by tomorrow, 18 hours, under the law, “triggering a small laugh of the presenter.
In a press conference, Fabien Roussel, felt he “[was] he announced his candidacy and program”. “I hope there is a real debate, continued the Communist candidate at the Elysee. His assessment, the French know him, he is hard, he severely struck the purchasing power of our fellow citizens. He refused to increase wages, increase pensions. “” It is important that it can present its project for France and not to hide behind the role it holds today in this very difficult period. I wishes (…) that we know, beyond this war [in Ukraine], what to happen for the salaries of the French, “added Mr. Roussel.
” Last quarter of an hour “
Yannick Jadot, from the Fair of Agriculture, in Paris, also reacted to this announcement, on an offensive mode:
“It’s been a long time since Emmanuel Macron was in the country, it’s been a long time spending in a pretty electoral way. There is no ambiguity, again: we must at the same time manage the urgency Absolute to help Ukrainians in this tragic moment (…), and we have to have a great democratic debate in our country. “
It has been several weeks that candidates deplore a public debate retracted by the sanitary crisis and then by the war in Ukraine, and by the silence of the head of state on its intentions. “We do not have a campaign, we do not have an opponent today, it is a totally unprecedented situation in the V e Republic, had yet deplored the candidate of the party the Republicans, Valérie Pécresse, Thursday on France 5
Emmanuel Macron “will be president until the last quarter of an hour” because “the French needs a president for the next five weeks as for the next five years,” said Thursday morning, on FranceInfo , the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal.