Candidate for five days, the outgoing president must go to the Yvelines, Monday night, to “go to meet the French”.
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For weeks, they have stopped raising, in the media or in the small committee, a presidential campaign “without passion”, “without ideas”, “without debate”, even “dead-living”, for Resume an expression of the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal. But now that Emmanuel Macron is officially candidate for the presidential election of April 10 and 24, the supporters of the Head of State would like to convince that this deadline is not span. That their champion does not seek to dodge, despite his late statement of application.
“In reality, this campaign has been launched for a very long time. And it has been a long time since the President of the Republic is attacked by the oppositions,” said the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, Sunday, March 6, on Europe 1. “This campaign is of good quality,” had already rented that of the economy, Bruno the mayor, five days earlier, on Franceinfo.
In the face of the criticisms of the opposition, which accuse the tenant of the Elysee to want to “erase” the debate, the macronists all retort the same argument: in their eyes, “the fault” would come back to their opponents, incapable to impose their themes in opinion. “For six months, there were primaries, congresses, meetings,” said Attal, on March 2, at the end of the Council of Ministers. As if to try to convince the French that they would not be deprived of the main democratic appointment of the country.
Because a deaf anxiety at the top of the state: the illegitimacy trial that could be brought to Emmanuel Macron in case of re-election, in the aftermath of an atone campaign because of the war in Ukraine. And in which the head of state does not seem to whisper for the time, dodging his opponents as the media to stage a direct meeting with part of the population.
Neither debate nor emission
During a meeting in the Gard on Saturday, March 5th, the national rally candidate, Marine Le Pen, thus accused his opponent to seek to make this election an “administrative formality”. Four days earlier, on Europe 1, the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher (the Republicans, LR), had underlined the “risk” of a lack of “legitimacy” of Mr. Macron if he came to Reel without real debate. An angle of attack swept by the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand (LRM). “Should we say about Valérie Pécresse, who was elected with 33% of participation [at the Premature Tour of Regional Elections], that it would not be legitimate?”, Riposée this close to Mr. Macron, Sunday, on France 3.
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