On the move in Finistère, the Head of State has increased criticism against the national gathering candidate, his direct competitor for the first round of the presidential election.
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Back to fundamentals. After starting his campaign with line markers (retirement at 65 years, Conditioning the RSA), then multiplied the calls of the foot to the left, valuing the social measures of his project (payment of social aid at the source), Emmanuel Macron returned to what is considered his “DNA”: his pro-European commitment.
Tuesday, April 5, five days from the first round of the presidential election, President Candidate made the choice to go to the small village of Spezet, in Finistère – in the fief of one of his faithful The first hour, the president of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand – where he delivered a real plea for Europe. A space, which “does not retire to the strength of France” but “makes it” on the contrary “stronger,” he assured, on a pugnaceous tone, by presenting himself as “passionately French and resolutely European” .
Standing, micro hand, in the center of the village square, and surrounded by nearly 500 people, he held a kind of outdoor meeting, in a campaign atmosphere. Copyfully hue by a handful of “yellow vests” during his arrival – which were then kept remotely by security – the head of state was then acclaimed by the majority of the crowd. “Macron president!” “And one and two, and five more years!”, I could hear, between two notes of Biniou.
“Close up is a madness”
Meticulously, the tenant of the Elysee exposed all the areas in which France takes advantage of the alliance it forms with its neighbors. “The solution for our energy independence”, affected by the war in Ukraine? She “is European and can not be French,” he decided. “It is thanks and by Europe that we will build a strategy to buy gas and oil elsewhere than in Russia.” The management of migratory flows? Even and again Europe, with the protection of the external borders of the Schengen area and the establishment of a common reception policy.
Ditto for the construction of a real defense policy, that only on the continent scale. “It is by Europe that, in the new geopolitics, France can be neither the vassal of China nor [one] from the United States!” He launched under the applause, estimating the passage That the old continent “allows us to reform a capitalism become excessive and sometimes crazy”. “France of equal opportunities, power and economic independence will only be done if our France is stronger in Europe,” he summed up in an odo to “this little piece of land “Where we have” invented humanism, human rights and the spirit of the lights “.
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