The candidate LR in the presidential election has exposed Thursday his vision of French defense. One way to highlight his ability to manage the country in times of crisis.
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On the right, it almost became a mantra: the campaign despite everything, the debate in all circumstances. But with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which has plunged Europe into the worst period of troubles for years, impossible to continue as before. Left not to be so understood as the party would like it. Today ; Ukraine is in all spirits. In this context, the candidate of the Republicans (LR) and the Center had decided to give, Thursday, March 3 to the house of the Polytechnicians in Paris, a great speech on the Defense.
The text should, at the origin, be pronounced in Brest, as part of a displacement devoted to the armies. The candidate should more particularly go to the operational base of the Long Island (Finistère), where are the nuclear submarines launchers of machines. The war has made the visit impossible.
It is therefore in a serious tone and with a mine of circumstance that the former Minister of Higher Education has exposed Thursday his vision of French defense. Just a few days after the convening of an advisor advisor to advise on these issues. The goal: “Show that it has the qualities to be a very good executive in times of crisis”, explains his spokesman, Othman Nasrou.
For Valérie Pécresse, it is also a question of existing in a context almost impossible. The war in Ukraine and the more agonishing information that others coming from the forehead occupy for the moment the thoughts of the French. She who had expected a magnitude response to Emmanuel Macron’s campaign – finally announced in an interview at the regional daily press, Thursday night – had to change his shoulder rifle. In a speech at his HQ, shortly after the publication of the letter of the President of the Republic, she recalled that “if the gravity of the international situation” required a “spirit of responsibility and a dignified opposition”, “the French can not not be deprived of a real democratic debate “.
Some measured reviews
Before the war, the candidate’s campaign team envisaged, to answer Mr. Macron, the distribution of several million leaflets criticizing the outgoing president’s balance sheet. But also the organization of regional press conferences pointing the quinquennate dysfunctions. An operation that aimed to recover the right-wing voters in the head of state and exit from the top of a complicated sequence in the surveys.
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