The possibility of a victory of Marine Le Pen in the second round worry, besides Rhine. Seven months after the German legislatures, a real political ditch separates France and Germany.
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“My God! Where are the voices for Emmanuel Macron to the second round? Pécresse made a disastrous score and the extremes (Le Pen, Zemmour, Mélenchon) are the majority.” Posted at 7:57 pm Sunday, April 10, this Tweet of Alexander Lambsdorff, Vice-President of the Liberal Democrat (FDP) of the Bundestag, summarizes the state of mind in which the results of the first round of the French election were welcomed within The coalition in power in Germany.
In Berlin, the satisfaction of seeing Emmanuel Macron will happen in the lead did not reassure those who worry about a Marine Le Pen victory in the second round. “Now everyone must gather behind Emmanuel Macron. It will be he or the end of united Europe. It may seem grandiloquent. But it’s reality,” reacted the Social Democrat Michael Roth (SPD), President of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee.
The wish to see Mr. Macron prevailed on April 24 is also shared by the Christian-Democrat (CDU) opposition. “M me Le Pen wants to destroy the European Union. That’s why Emmanuel Macron’s victory is decisive for the future of Europe,” said the former president of the CDU, Armin Leschet, on the chain Phoenix. “For Europe, the French presidential election is more important than the German legislative [September 2021]. On the issue of the unity of Europe, Olaf Scholz [SPD], Annalya Baerbock [Green] and I were Agreement, “said Angela Merkel’s ex-claim, with reference to his two adversaries, one of whom became Chancellor and the other, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In 2017, the candidacy of Mr. Macron had sparked a strong enthusiasm in Germany, where many had been seduced by “the child prodigy of politics”, which seemed to have everything of the ideal leader, “younger than John Fitzgerald Kennedy, more liberal than Tony Blair and more European than Gerhard Schröder “, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had written before the first round.
Inverted mirror
Five years later, magic has dissipated. “Today, Macron is leaving and is part of the Establishment. On economic reforms, he has some work to do. On Europe, he did not go as far as he could hope . And on his promise to reconcile “the two France”, he failed, “wrote on Sunday night, the great liberal-conservative daily.
Seven months after the German legislatures, a real political divide separates the two countries. In Germany, the extreme right (10.3%) fell 2 points after a campaign that was in the center. In France, it has never been so strong, its three candidates (Marine Le Pen, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and Eric Zemmour) who totaled almost 33% of the vote.
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