In Strasbourg Tuesday, the president candidate made the election a “referendum on Europe”. While he got right support, including Nicolas Sarkozy, he seeks first and foremost to give pledges to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s voters.
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The rosé shade of Strasbourg Cathedral has erased at night. Spots illuminate at its feet the place of the castle. Emmanuel Macron sits on a platform, on this Tuesday, March 12, surrounded by a few thousand people, who agitate French, European and Ukrainian flags. “Long live Europe!”, Chant supporters of the head of state. The latter came to send a warning, twelve days of the second round of the presidential election, which will see the candidate of the national rally, Marine Le Pen, on April 24, in a duel with uncertain result.
“This election is also a referendum on Europe. The far-right candidate proposes a nationalist project, which is not patriotism,” he warned, taking into account the words pronounced by François Mitterrand European Parliament, in 1995: “Nationalism is war.” The subject vibrates in the assistance, at the moment when the Russian troops pound Ukraine. So, estimates Emmanuel Macron, “we can have disagreements, sometimes differences, but the European project that is ours, today, we must defend it”. Applause, Marseillaise, Hymn to Joy.
A few minutes earlier, a handful of young people – “far-left activists,” he said – interrupted his speech at the cries of “Macron, makes the ISF!”; Others challenged him about climate change, or clamited the name of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. One last was evacuated by the order service after leaving a sign “angry beavers”. Reference to the ironic expression used by the leader of France unsuitable (LFI) to qualify the voters on the left, called to travele to the far right in a ritual way for twenty years.
Takes task than that of Emmanuel Macron. For five years, the herald of the “overtaking” of left-right cleavage has managed to play contradictions inherent in “at the same time”, to the point of surviving a five-year crisis and to devitalize the moderates of both banks. He must now achieve in less than two weeks the synthesis that will allow him to attract the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon without listening to his family, or to appear to dodge the hand outstretched hand. That of Nicolas Sarkozy, in particular, he received at the Elysee in the days preceding the first round. Europe, so. Eternal cement of macronism. But still?
The support of Nicolas Sarkozy
Monday night, the former Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve calls for voting in favor of Emmanuel Macron. He invited him immediately to “find the words, the behavior, but also the acts to convince the French, especially all those who are in love with social justice and democratic progress”.
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