The president candidate has designated on Saturday during a meeting in Nanterre, his enemy: the extreme right. And attempted to address a social-democratic electorate that had worn it in 2017.
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The time is no longer with cleavage or disruption. With less than a week of the first round of the presidential election on April 10, here came the time of the Union. The one attempt at Emmanuel Macron at his meeting of Nanterre, Saturday, April 2, at the Defense Arena, to bring together a “quiet force”, “Faced with those who try to sow the poison of the division, to fragment, to fragment, to fracture men “. The enemy is designated: the extreme right. The explicit model: François Mitterrand, elected in 1981 under the slogan of the “Quiet Force”.
Like the socialist president who, at the dawn of his re-election in 1988, called to remobilize the left against “clans”, “bands” and “factions”, like too One of Gaulle who, in 1965, alerted the citizens of the “collapse” of the Republic if he was not renewed in his duties, the head of state becomes the best guarantor of the values of France “universal” “,” fraternal “and secular, faced with those who disclose” counter-truths “and” nauseating theories “.
Even before you have crossed the hurdle of the first round, Emmanuel Macron projects itself in the second, which could, according to the polls, oppose it in Marine Le Pen, representative of the National Gathering (RN).
After the entry into laborious campaign of a candidate considered remote, carrier of unpopular measures, like the offset of the retirement age at age 65, and sometimes brutal, such as the counterparties required to the active solidarity income (RSA), the head of state has “snatched” Sunday, according to the words of one of his relatives, to find the favors of a social democracy which had brought him to power In 2017.
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The progressive but continuous erosion of the outgoing president in the surveys, concomitant to the dynamics recorded by the far-right candidate, the obligate. “Emmanuel Macron needs to mobilize this left-center electorate. He wants to put it back in its rails, but the exercise is infinitely more difficult than in 2017”, observes Frédéric Dabi, Deputy Director General of the IFOP Survey Institute.
The gap is tightened between the two possible rivals of the second round, to the point of suggesting a victory of Marine Le Pen. “I do not listen to those who have already won neither Cassandre; no, but we need to meet the challenge of the fight,” said the head of state.
To find the momentum that is missing, Emmanuel Macron first tempted to appease his image. Playing empathy to contradict those who accuse him of arrogance and say it far from the concerns of the French, he mentioned these “sometimes so friendly, so affectionate looks”, sometimes “angry too”, that he could cross . “Considering, respect, talking … Talking, it’s very important,” he insisted in his promotional video, “the candidate”, broadcast on Friday 1 er April. “Resentment is a terrible engine for extremes,” he explained.
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