The head of state went to debate Monday in the city of Yvelines with French. A first campaign exercise in which the president-candidate conceded the difficulty of reconciling the two caps.
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Emmanuel Macron wanted to “tap in the bag,” assured us his friend Karl olive, the Mayor of Poissy. For the first campaign exercise of the Head of State, now officially candidate for his re-election, the Edile promised to confront the tenant of the Elysée to the reality of the field against a public demanding in his city of Yvelines, Monday 7 March. “It will be anything but a political meeting where the candidate is applauded even when it gives the hour,” said the former member of the Republicans (LR). The city of Poissy had adequate rants, since “Poissy is France,” he explained: 7% of unemployment rates, 32% of social housing and 20% of the immigration population.
Arrived with a delay limited to the quarter-hour of politeness, in a calendar timed by the tragic news of the war in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron did not give the time on Monday night. But he was applauded. Many. Welcomed by a standing ovation of almost five minutes, the president and candidate complained to a kind of big debate in a tightened format, to defend his balance sheet and sketch his program. Without being quite acquired, the public was, that night, benevolent. In the room, Ibrahim Traoré, 33 years old, specialized educator, did not entry out not to know too much to vote but said “proceed by disposal”. And “by elimination, we have Emmanuel Macron”, he concluded.
A reflection of France? Charactering in the lead in the polls with an advance of more than 10 points on all his opponents, the tenant of the Elysée the hammer: at a little more than a month of the first round, “nothing is acquired”. It is a candidate above the fray that has dedicated that evening an hour thirty of his time to some 200 inhabitants of Poissy invited by the mayor. A gathering president more than a clevant candidate, who convened the memory of General de Gaulle and François Mitterrand, shatter of “France United”.
“Hard to be president and at the same time candidate”
Before escaping for a “call” with the Heads of State and Government of Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom on the war triggered by Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron sought after the appeasement but also the effectiveness, by composing between his role as president and his vocation as a candidate.
“Me who has defended a lot of” at the same time “, it is difficult to be president and at the same time candidate,” he conceded, promising to “unfold” in the coming month “a few Simple ideas “that will compose its program declined in four” pacts “: a European pact, which aims in particular to build a defense Europe. A pact between generations, where one imagines a pension reform – which it was not discussed that evening – which could register in addition to measures on dependence. A productive pact, doing work a “cardinal notion” to go to full employment. And, finally, a republican pact with some lines of force on secularism, immigration and integration.
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