In visit to a reception center, the Head of State tried to endorse the costume of “Protective President” and to display a humanist profile after a five-year-old where he swelled between Firmness and opening about the welcome of foreigners.
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Women and children in tears, shocked to have had to flee their country against the Russian offensive, and most often worried about a big brother or father remained in the country to fight. Poignant testimonials, heavy atmosphere … The emotion was palpable during the visit that Emmanuel Macron in a center welcoming Ukrainian refugees, Maine-et-Loire, Tuesday, March 15th. Among the 63 people arrived on Friday, March 11 in this establishment of the municipality of La Pommeraye, in the suburbs of Angers, most have crossed Poland, then Germany, before being welcomed in France.
On the side of his child, a woman tells his journey to the head of state. Her husband and mother stayed in Ukraine. “Do you have news?”, Request Mr. Macron. “No, I’m worried a lot for them,” she answers crying. In the stride, another woman explains to him “to be afraid” for his parents and his sister, who still live in kyiv, in the process of being encircled by the Russian army. After trying to console them, as he could, the President of the Republic finds himself confronted with the story of three little boys. “My father is in kyiv, he fights,” said one, aged 6, before bursting in tears, explaining to be without news from him. “Your father is fighting for your country to be free. We are going to do everything to stop this war,” tries to reassure him Mr. Macron, accompanied by the Ministers Gérald Darmanin (interior) and Marlène Schiappa (citizenship).
change of radical
Twenty-six days of the first round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron shows an empathic profile in the face of these victims of the invasion of their country. “These women and men flee through Europe. Our duty is to be able to welcome them, protect them, in the best possible conditions,” he says in front of the press. Before reaffirming that France “will take its part.”
While more than 3 million people have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the war, February 24, 15,000 refugees arrived in France for now. The Government considers to be able to welcome at least 100,000. “We have the capacity and duty. This fraternity is also our collective dignity,” Macron insisted by tribute to the associations and “the” very concrete solidarity of French “.
The opportunity, for the one who is a candidate for his re-election, to concretely put in the costume of “Protective President”, which he tries to endorse since the beginning of this war. And to display a humanist profile, at the end of a five-year, where the head of state has oscillated between firmness and opening on the welcome of foreigners. During his speech of August 16 devoted to the Afghan crisis, he had, for example, been strongly criticized by the left for stating that France, in addition to his duty to welcome asylum seekers, will have to “protect against irregular migration flows “. Today, the change of tone is radical. “The Chairman must embody the humanitarian dimension of the conflict,” says a tenant advisor of the Elysée. He can not only make threads to Putin. “
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