The candidate for his re-election went Friday in Pau, fief of his allied François Bayrou, in order to carry out “a conversation” very controlled with French.
This is not (always) a meeting. After Poissy (Yvelines), there are a dozen days, Emmanuel Macron was in Pau, Friday, March 18, for a new “conversation” with French in the context of his presidential campaign. A “meeting” at the palace Beaumont between a panel of citizens and a “worker man like there”, endowed with an “amazing analysis donation” and a “mastery of the complexity of the files”, ” Close to the weak and moved by the most fragile “, as described by the mayor of the city, François Bayrou. All in front of five hundred people – including militants from the Republic (LRM) -, who ovate the President of the Republic upon arrival, launch “bravo!”, Then growled when the questions addressed to him are Too vented.
Cameras fixed on a crane and a rail, as on a movie tray, were responsible for immortalizing the event on behalf of the campaign team, which provides images with television channels. A woman filming with her phone and wanted to challenge Emmanuel Macron was evacuated before the arrival of the head of state. Thursday, already, the presidential entourage had manifested its willingness to control strict communication by in advance with the journalists of the questions they wanted to ask during the press conference held by Mr. Macron to present his Program.
Twelve southwest readers and the Republic of the Pyrenees were selected by the two regional newspapers to interview Emmanuel Macron. “Trusted third parties”, according to a loved one, intended to convince that “potemkine democracy” mocked by the opposition following the very locked meeting of Poissy, with questions selected in advance, is no longer than a bad memory. An apparent opening concern that did not stop the Elysée from prohibiting televisions and radios to introduce their pickups into the room until the end of the meeting.
For the latter, the paloisis exercise took up the after-sales service session. No surprises on the merits, but some reminders, for nearly three hours, on the philosophy of the project it covers for the presidential election of 10 and 24 April, focused around the work.
“I am for the ecology”
Does it wish to offer a boost to the SMIC in case of re-election, rather than accumulate “measurettes” on the purchasing power, asks Mickaël, 29, seller in the textile? No, “If we increase the SMIC, we will destroy employment,” the head of state answers, who praises his balance sheet. “Never, since the events of [May] 68, a smicard had had so much increase of purchasing power in our country,” he says, highlight the “twenty-five billion euros Tax cuts on households “and the” increase of the activity bonus “. Moreover, if he had to extend his lease at the Elysée, Mr. Macron intends to triple his amount.
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