Less than 3,000 supporters attended the short evening given in honor of the winner of the second round of the presidential election, in a wise atmosphere.
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It is 9:30 p.m., on the Champ-de-Mars, when the Ode announcing the arrival of the winner: the hymn to joy, from Beethoven, the symbol of Europe. A small group goes up for a hundred meters the meadow to the podium, back to the Eiffel Tower, where less than three thousand supporters of Emmanuel Macron wait. Is it because his success is not that of 2017, that he remembered criticism on his solitary practice of power? The re -elected president does not come alone, this Sunday, April 24, as five years earlier at the Louvre. He holds his wife’s hand, Brigitte, and advances in the midst of twenty children, “those of people engaged in the campaign, collaborators, volunteers …”, specifies his press service. A procession not very reassured and a little sparse, as a spectacle that would lack means or extras.
This victory on the extreme right, in the midst of war between Russia and Ukraine, it is also for fans of Emmanuel Macron across the borders, more fervent and less ungrateful than French voters, judge without doubt the president. Among the 1,200 journalists accredited for this second round of the presidential election, half of the way are foreigners. And while his adversaries hold, as soon as his re -election announced, hard words against the Head of State, Europe congratulates him in choir: the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the German president Frank -Walter Steinmeier, the Greek Prime Minister, but also the Lithuanian President and the Estonian Prime Minister, without forgetting the warm message from kyiv: that of the Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky, happy with the re -election of “a real friend of the Ukraine “. A relief concert in the face of the Putin threat, a big mute of the evening.
“sober” speech
Here is finally Emmanuel Macron in front of the platform. It was time ! An hour already that an enthusiastic but unknown DJ pushes his turntables to try to make the president’s militants or guests dance. One More Time of the Daft Punk, The Wall of Pink Floyd, of the Elton John remixed… Vanetty makes the public wait for this electoral evening in the open air with a playlist for carefree holidays, but struggles to pack less numerous and passionate activists than the plans tight of the candidate’s cameras suggests it.
In 2002, during his re-election against Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jacques Chirac had chosen to speak place of the Republic, in this is Parisian reserved for the victories of the left, in front of a mixed crowd where a lot immigrants, relieved of the overwhelming defeat of the far right. On the Champ-de-Mars, the small troop of young people with Macron who takes up one of the refrains of the campaign meetings (“and one, and two, and five more years”) is much more homogeneous and wise. The TVs broadcast the few dance steps sketched by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, and that of territorial cohesion, Joël Giraud, but the joy seems forced, and the embarrassment of the Secretary of State for European Affairs , Clément Beaune, is not far away.
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